With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Cedar Hill Lakes works elsewhere
There are 18 jobs in Cedar Hill Lakes; 67 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Cedar Hill Lakes for work; outside it, St. Louis is the main destination (13%, 31 miles). Home is the office for 6% of workers, where Missouri as a whole has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Cedar Hill Lakes for work, and who comes in
On a workday 67 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 18 people come in from elsewhere.
About 150 people are in Cedar Hill Lakes on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
The places Cedar Hill Lakes commutes to
Where Cedar Hill Lakes clocks in
13% of workers
12% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Cedar Hill Lakes
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cedar Hill Lakes, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 18. 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 Cedar Hill Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 40 minutes in Cedar Hill Lakes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cedar Hill Lakes workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 148 commuters (the 6% 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.
Miles to work from Cedar Hill Lakes
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 Cedar Hill Lakes: questions
What is the median household income in Cedar Hill Lakes?
$59,821 (±$32,997) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cedar Hill Lakes?
7.0%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cedar Hill Lakes?
40 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cedar Hill Lakes work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Louis (13%, 31 mi), Chesterfield (12%, 23 mi), Pacific (4%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cedar Hill Lakes without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cedar Hill Lakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cedar Hill Lakes
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.