Household incomes in Carroll Township are lower than in 70% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Carroll Township C; getting around on foot earns it C+. Below the poverty line: 5.1% of residents, next to 12.6% for Missouri as a whole. About one in ten work in Carroll Township; the top destination outside it is Houston (9%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Carroll Township stands out on work
Inside Carroll Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Carroll Township is better than 32% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Carroll Township’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.8%) is left out: Carroll Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Carroll Township could be anywhere from D to B.
How far Carroll Township goes to work
About 41% 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 commutes out of Carroll Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 231 residents head out to work, 29 work right here, and 207 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.91 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 Carroll Township’s working residents head each day
Where Carroll Township clocks in
9% of workers
5% 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 the 236 jobs in Carroll Township are
236 jobs are based in Carroll Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Carroll Township, 2013 → 2023: 225 → 236. 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 Carroll Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Carroll Township, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Carroll Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 282 commuters (the 17% 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.
In Carroll Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Carroll Township is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.2% across Missouri, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 338 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). 15.7% of Carroll Township households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Carroll Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Carroll Township ranks: 2,023rd of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
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| 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+ |
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| 80 | Fremont Hills MO | 1,098 | $171K | 3.9% | 1.9% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,021 | Nottingham Township IN | 1,040 | $65K | 9.6% | 0.0% | 4% | C |
| 2,022 | Charlton Township MI | 1,413 | $67K | 6.4% | 8.1% | 3% | C |
| 2,023 | Carroll Township MO | 1,075 | $62K | 5.1% | 4.8% | 11% | C |
| 2,024 | Albion WI | 1,158 | $68K | 9.0% | 2.5% | 1% | C |
| 2,025 | Colchester IL | 1,070 | $64K | 7.8% | 3.8% | 9% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Carroll Township, the top three, the last and three more from Missouri.
The towns around Carroll Township
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Carroll Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carroll Township | – | C | C+ | 23 min | $62,292 |
| Current Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Date Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Ozark Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Current Township, Date Township and Ozark Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Carroll Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Carroll Township: questions
What is the median household income in Carroll Township?
$62,292 (±$34,164) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Carroll Township?
5.1%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Carroll Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Carroll Township work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (9%, 17 mi), Summersville (8%, 2 mi), West Plains (5%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Carroll Township walkable?
Carroll Township is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Carroll Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Carroll Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Carroll Township
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.