Photo: RuralResurrection · CC BY 4.0Cole Camp’s household incomes are lower than in 91% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income D: better than 10% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability A−: more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns.
Working residents average 19 minutes each way (Missouri 24, U.S. 26). About one in seven work in Cole Camp; the top destination outside it is Sedalia (24%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Cole Camp, in brief
A big share show a job far from home
32% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Many jobs in Cole Camp pay little
26% of the jobs based in Cole Camp pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Cole Camp are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 24 across Missouri. That’s about 38 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; with 415 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Cole Camp’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Cole Camp is better than 10% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Cole Camp’s grade up (12.7%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($47,083, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Cole Camp’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, Cole Camp could be anywhere from D− to C.
Half of Cole Camp commutes less than 18 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
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.
What the 446 jobs in Cole Camp are
446 jobs are based in Cole Camp. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cole Camp’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cole Camp, 2013 → 2023: 473 → 446. 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.
About 19 minutes each way, quicker than most of Missouri
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cole Camp workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 642 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across Missouri: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 345 residents head out to work, 70 work right here, and 376 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 (1.07 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.
24% of working residents work in Sedalia
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Cole Camp clocks in
24% of workers
5% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Cole Camp is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cole Camp is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Cole Camp near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 688 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). 3.5% of Cole Camp households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cole Camp’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cole Camp is 3,524th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Cole Camp, the top three, the last and three more from Missouri.
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Loch Lloyd MO | 1,090 | $184K | 2.5% | 0.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 72 | LaBarque Creek MO | 1,457 | $133K | 1.1% | 1.7% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 94 | Fremont Hills MO | 1,098 | $171K | 3.9% | 1.9% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,522 | Keystone CO | 1,274 | $52K | 26.3% | 1.7% | 22% | D |
| 3,523 | Buchanan GA | 1,028 | $53K | 17.1% | 10.0% | 5% | D |
| 3,524 | Cole Camp MO | 1,169 | $47K | 12.7% | 1.5% | 17% | D |
| 3,525 | Sullivan ME | 1,281 | $60K | 13.6% | 6.0% | 8% | D |
| 3,526 | Jackson Township MO | 1,207 | $58K | 15.8% | 1.0% | 8% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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.
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 Cole Camp: questions
What is the median household income in Cole Camp?
$47,083 (±$12,638) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cole Camp?
12.7%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cole Camp?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cole Camp work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sedalia (24%, 17 mi), Kansas City (5%, 86 mi), Springfield (4%, 88 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cole Camp walkable?
Cole Camp is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cole Camp without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cole Camp, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cole Camp
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.