Appleton City has lower household incomes than 89% of U.S. towns
About one in seven work in Appleton City; the top destination outside it is Clinton (16%, 19 miles). 10.9% of residents live below the poverty line, where Missouri as a whole has 12.6%. For jobs and income Appleton City is better than 11% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (B+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Appleton City in brief
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Appleton City
The poverty rate holds Appleton City’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 7% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Appleton City’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Appleton City could be anywhere from D to C−.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Appleton City
About 38% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Who leaves Appleton City for work, and who comes in
On a workday 322 residents head out to work, 44 work right here, and 453 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Appleton City on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.36 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Appleton City work
Where Appleton City clocks in
16% of workers
5% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
What work there is in Appleton City: 497 jobs
497 jobs are based in Appleton City.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Appleton City, 2013 → 2023: 557 → 497. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Appleton City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Appleton City: about 23 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Appleton City workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 484 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across Missouri: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Few in Appleton City walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 523 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 8.4% of Appleton City households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Appleton City’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Appleton City ranks 3,025th of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Loch Lloyd MO | 1,090 | $184K | 2.5% | 0.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | LaBarque Creek MO | 1,457 | $133K | 1.1% | 1.7% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 80 | Fremont Hills MO | 1,098 | $171K | 3.9% | 1.9% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,023 | Camargo KY | 1,051 | $48K | 26.7% | 7.0% | 1% | D |
| 3,024 | Frankfort MI | 1,280 | $54K | 12.3% | 6.7% | 27% | D |
| 3,025 | Appleton City MO | 1,096 | $49K | 10.9% | 2.4% | 12% | D |
| 3,026 | New Paris OH | 1,480 | $39K | 23.7% | 7.2% | 3% | D |
| 3,027 | Metolius OR | 1,039 | $65K | 18.4% | 4.6% | <1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Appleton City, the top three, the last and three more from Missouri.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Appleton City: questions
What is the median household income in Appleton City?
$49,036 (±$4,524) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Appleton City?
10.9%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Appleton City?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Appleton City work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clinton (16%, 19 mi), Springfield (5%, 80 mi), Butler (4%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Appleton City walkable?
Appleton City is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Appleton City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Appleton City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Appleton City
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.