Blue Eye draws 209 commuters a day, with 1.9 jobs for every working resident
Only 6% work in Blue Eye itself; outside it, Springfield draws the most (12%, 47 miles). 216 jobs are based in Blue Eye, against 116 working residents. 27% of workers work from home (Missouri 13%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Blue Eye: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 109 residents head out to work and 7 work right here.
About 410 people are in Blue Eye on a workday afternoon, 32% 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 Blue Eye’s workforce comes from
Where Blue Eye clocks in
12% of workers
9% 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.
Blue Eye is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blue Eye, 2013 → 2023: 185 → 216. 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 Blue Eye’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes to work from Blue Eye
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blue Eye workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 107 commuters (the 27% 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 distance from Blue Eye to work
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.
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 Blue Eye: questions
What is the median household income in Blue Eye?
$32,917 (±$19,147) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Blue Eye?
8.5%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blue Eye?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 27% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blue Eye work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Springfield (12%, 47 mi), Branson (9%, 9 mi), Berryville (4%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Blue Eye without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Blue Eye, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blue Eye
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.