With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Cherokee Pass works elsewhere
Hardly any stay in Cherokee Pass for work; outside it, Fredericktown is the main destination (21%, 5 miles). There are 58 jobs in Cherokee Pass; 117 of its residents have a job. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 13% for Missouri as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Cherokee Pass
On a workday 116 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 57 people come in from elsewhere.
About 62 people are in Cherokee Pass on a workday afternoon, 49% 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.
Commuting out of Cherokee Pass: the destinations
Where Cherokee Pass clocks in
21% of workers
12% 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.
What Cherokee Pass’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cherokee Pass, 2013 → 2023: 21 → 58. 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 Cherokee Pass’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Cherokee Pass, about 19 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cherokee Pass workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 87 commuters (the 0% 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.
Where in the region Cherokee Pass works
About 32% 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 Cherokee Pass: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cherokee Pass?
0.0%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cherokee Pass?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cherokee Pass work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fredericktown (21%, 5 mi), Farmington (12%, 22 mi), Cape Girardeau (3%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cherokee Pass without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cherokee Pass, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cherokee Pass
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.