Photo: Rowen Hansen · CC BY-SA 4.0Buckner has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
For jobs and income Buckner is better than 53% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (B−). Employers in Buckner report 427 jobs for 1,515 working residents. Only 4% work in Buckner; the top destination outside it is Kansas City (22%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Buckner: the figures worth knowing
Buckner’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Job access by car holds Buckner’s grade up (ahead of 66% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (5.1%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Buckner could be anywhere from C to A.
How a workday changes Buckner
On a workday 1,452 residents head out to work, 63 work right here, and 364 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Buckner on a workday afternoon, 38% fewer 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 the trip to work from Buckner ends
Where Buckner clocks in
22% of workers
12% of workers
8% 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.
Jobs in Buckner: what the 427 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Buckner, 2013 → 2023: 330 → 427. 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 Buckner’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Buckner
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Buckner workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,429 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.
How far Buckner’s workers travel
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.
Buckner is a driving town
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,554 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.8% of Buckner households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Buckner’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Buckner is 2,184th of 4,882 U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | St. Paul MO | 3,849 | $159K | 0.5% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Weatherby Lake MO | 2,139 | $153K | 3.4% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 101 | Clarkson Valley MO | 2,540 | $247K | 3.0% | 2.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,182 | Driggs ID | 2,403 | $95K | 11.6% | 2.1% | 24% | B− |
| 2,183 | Richmond IL | 2,114 | $73K | 5.2% | 8.9% | 4% | B− |
| 2,184 | Buckner MO | 2,891 | $87K | 12.1% | 5.1% | 4% | B− |
| 2,185 | Carryall Township OH | 2,992 | $65K | 9.8% | 2.6% | 11% | B− |
| 2,186 | Warren AFB WY | 2,936 | $69K | 5.9% | 0.9% | 7% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Buckner, 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 Buckner: questions
What is the median household income in Buckner?
$87,350 (±$19,371) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Buckner?
12.1%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Buckner?
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 Buckner work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kansas City (22%, 19 mi), Independence (12%, 9 mi), Blue Springs (8%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Buckner walkable?
Buckner is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Buckner without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Buckner, from the people who make the trip.
More of Buckner
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.