A job hub: Cassville has 1.8 jobs per working resident, and 1,728 people come in to work
2,015 jobs are based in Cassville; 1,151 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Cassville D; getting around on foot earns it A−. About one in four work in Cassville itself; outside it, Springfield draws the most (11%, 48 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Cassville in brief
Cassville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Cassville is Springfield, 48 miles away as the crow flies. 11% of working residents (121) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Cassville is where the jobs are
Cassville has 2,015 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Cassville than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Cassville fell from 3,346 in 2013 to 2,015 in 2023, −40%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Cassville are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 24 across Missouri. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Missouri worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Jobs & income in Cassville: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cassville is better than 10% of U.S. towns, #229 of 247 in Missouri. Household income holds Cassville’s grade up ($60,469, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (31.3%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cassville could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Where in the region Cassville works
About 18% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Cassville
On a workday 864 residents head out to work and 287 work right here.
About 4,200 people are in Cassville on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
What Cassville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cassville, 2013 → 2023: 3,346 → 2,015. 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 Cassville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Cassville: about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cassville workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,254 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.
Who travels to work in Cassville, and from where
Where Cassville clocks in
11% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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.
Cassville is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cassville is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns, #37 of 247 in Missouri. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.2% across Missouri, on an EPA index of 8.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,359 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). 8.2% of Cassville households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cassville’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,500, and where Cassville sits
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | St. Paul MO | 3,849 | $159K | 0.5% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 106 | Clarkson Valley MO | 2,540 | $247K | 3.0% | 2.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 177 | Frontenac MO | 3,790 | $233K | 2.0% | 4.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,145 | Hardwick GA | 3,402 | $40K | 23.1% | 5.2% | 2% | D |
| 4,146 | Whiteman AFB MO | 3,517 | $55K | 13.3% | 3.6% | 5% | D |
| 4,147 | Cassville MO | 3,301 | $60K | 31.3% | 6.1% | 25% | D |
| 4,148 | Coats NC | 2,370 | $37K | 21.6% | 3.8% | 3% | D |
| 4,149 | Donora PA | 4,462 | $40K | 29.6% | 12.7% | 10% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,593 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Cassville, 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 Cassville: questions
What is the median household income in Cassville?
$60,469 (±$8,475) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cassville?
31.3%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cassville?
16 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cassville work?
25% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Springfield (11%, 48 mi), Monett (6%, 17 mi), Bentonville (3%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cassville walkable?
Cassville is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cassville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cassville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cassville
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.