Earning a living in Dadeville
For 3% of workers, the job is at home; Missouri has 13%. Only 1% work in Dadeville; the top destination outside it is Springfield (28%, 29 miles). Working residents average 43 minutes each way (Missouri 24, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Dadeville by day and by night
On a workday 80 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 56 people come in from elsewhere.
About 210 people are in Dadeville on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.70 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Dadeville’s working residents head each day
Where Dadeville clocks in
28% 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 Dadeville
57 jobs are based in Dadeville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dadeville, 2013 → 2023: 9 → 57. 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 Dadeville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Dadeville, about 43 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dadeville workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 89 commuters (the 3% 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.
How far Dadeville goes to work
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.
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 Dadeville: questions
What is the median household income in Dadeville?
$85,000 (±$31,667) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dadeville?
6.4%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dadeville?
43 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dadeville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Springfield (28%, 29 mi), Greenfield (9%, 10 mi), Lockwood (4%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Dadeville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dadeville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dadeville
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.