Clay Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Measured by household income, Clay Township is behind 88% of U.S. towns. 218 jobs are based in Clay Township for 492 working residents. For jobs and income Clay Township is better than 2% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (B−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Clay Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Clay Township’s grade.
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Clay Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Clay Township could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Clay Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 436 residents head out to work, 56 work right here, and 162 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Clay Township 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.
14% of working residents work in Kennett
Where Clay Township clocks in
14% 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.
The kinds of work in Clay Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clay Township, 2013 → 2023: 237 → 218. 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 Clay Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes each way for Clay Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clay Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 445 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Clay Township
About 29% 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.
For most of Clay Township, work means a drive
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.2% across Missouri, on an EPA index of 4.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 474 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). 12.2% of Clay Township households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Clay Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, and where Clay Township sits
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 80 | Fremont Hills MO | 1,098 | $171K | 3.9% | 1.9% | <1% | A+ |
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| 3,634 | Carnegie OK | 1,366 | $44K | 21.6% | 5.0% | 29% | D− |
| 3,635 | Honaker VA | 1,191 | $44K | 26.5% | 0.5% | 4% | D− |
| 3,636 | Clay Township MO | 1,126 | $50K | 27.7% | 1.5% | 11% | D− |
| 3,637 | Cascade ID | 1,018 | $54K | 32.0% | 8.8% | 27% | D− |
| 3,638 | Milford IL | 1,116 | $47K | 26.8% | 4.2% | 10% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Clay Township, the top three, the last and three more from Missouri.
Clay Township and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Clay Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Township | – | D− | B− | 24 min | $50,000 |
| Salem Township | under 2% | D− | C | 27 min | $40,352 |
| Independence Township | under 2% | D | B | 22 min | $55,521 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Clay 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 Clay Township: questions
What is the median household income in Clay Township?
$50,000 (±$27,938) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clay Township?
27.7%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clay Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clay Township work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kennett (14%, 12 mi), Blytheville (8%, 13 mi), Hornersville (4%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Clay Township walkable?
Clay Township is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Clay Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Clay Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clay 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.