Photo: Skye Marthaler · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Bloomfield are lower than in 95% of U.S. towns
Only 5% work in Bloomfield; the top destination outside it is Dexter (24%, 7 miles). 25.1% of residents are in poverty, next to 12.6% for Missouri as a whole. For jobs and income Bloomfield is better than 5% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (A−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Bloomfield
Where Bloomfield’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Job access by car holds Bloomfield’s grade up (ahead of 26% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($41,838, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (7.4%) is left out: Bloomfield’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, Bloomfield could be anywhere from D− to D.
Inside Bloomfield’s 400 jobs
400 jobs are based in Bloomfield.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bloomfield, 2013 → 2023: 660 → 400. 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 Bloomfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Bloomfield by day
On a workday 640 residents head out to work, 36 work right here, and 364 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Bloomfield on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.59 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places Bloomfield commutes to
Where Bloomfield clocks in
24% of workers
7% 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.
Time on the road from Bloomfield: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bloomfield workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 695 commuters (the 8% 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.
The commute from Bloomfield, by distance
About 21% 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.
Bloomfield is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 759 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). 5.3% of Bloomfield households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bloomfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bloomfield and other U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Warson Woods MO | 1,990 | $207K | 1.3% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Weatherby Lake MO | 2,139 | $153K | 3.4% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 56 | Lake Winnebago MO | 1,869 | $179K | 1.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,282 | Huachuca City AZ | 1,583 | $51K | 20.2% | 3.7% | 3% | D− |
| 5,283 | Roodhouse IL | 1,484 | $53K | 25.6% | 16.1% | 3% | D− |
| 5,284 | Bloomfield MO | 1,734 | $42K | 25.1% | 7.4% | 5% | D− |
| 5,285 | Santa Clara NM | 1,592 | $58K | 23.4% | 6.2% | 6% | D− |
| 5,286 | Cherokee OK | 1,439 | $59K | 22.2% | 6.1% | 25% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Bloomfield, 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 Bloomfield: questions
What is the median household income in Bloomfield?
$41,838 (±$5,920) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bloomfield?
25.1%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bloomfield?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bloomfield work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dexter (24%, 7 mi), Sikeston (7%, 19 mi), Poplar Bluff (5%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bloomfield walkable?
Bloomfield is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bloomfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bloomfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bloomfield
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.