Photo: TCP04 · CC BY 4.0A job hub: Ashley has 11.1 jobs per working resident, and 322 people come in to work
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, against 13% across Missouri. Employers in Ashley report 322 jobs; 29 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Ashley for work; outside it, Bowling Green is the main destination (24%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Ashley’s population more than triples on a workday
On a workday 29 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 330 people are in Ashley on a workday afternoon, 862% more than live here.
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 Ashley’s workforce comes from
Where Ashley clocks in
10% of workers
10% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Ashley
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ashley, 2013 → 2023: 66 → 322. 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 Ashley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Ashley
of Ashley workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8 commuters (the 0% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Ashley
About 24% 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.
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 Ashley: questions
What is the poverty rate in Ashley?
0.0%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Ashley work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bowling Green (24%, 6 mi), Louisiana (10%, 16 mi), O'Fallon (10%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ashley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ashley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ashley
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.