De Witt has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
3 jobs are based in De Witt, against 39 working residents. Hardly any work in De Witt itself; outside it, Carrollton draws the most (13%, 15 miles). Working residents average 25 minutes each way, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of De Witt on a workday
On a workday 39 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 47 people are in De Witt on a workday afternoon, 43% 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.
Where De Witt goes to work
Where De Witt clocks in
13% of workers
13% 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 De Witt
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in De Witt, 2013 → 2023: 59 → 3. 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 De Witt’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 25 minutes from De Witt
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of De Witt workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 15 commuters (the 17% 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.
Half of De Witt commutes less than 40 miles
About 46% 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 De Witt: questions
What is the poverty rate in De Witt?
18.2%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from De Witt?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in De Witt work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Carrollton (13%, 15 mi), Columbia (13%, 57 mi), Chillicothe (10%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around De Witt 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 De Witt, from the people who make the trip.
More of De Witt
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.