Photo: Paltron · CC BY-SA 4.0Deepwater has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Hardly any work in Deepwater; the top destination outside it is Clinton (32%, 8 miles). Deepwater has 5 jobs, and 128 of its residents work somewhere. Working residents average 23 minutes each way, about the same as across Missouri.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Deepwater, and who commutes in
On a workday 128 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 5 people come in from elsewhere.
About 260 people are in Deepwater on a workday afternoon, 32% 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 people from Deepwater work
Where Deepwater clocks in
32% of workers
5% 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.
Most jobs in Deepwater are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Deepwater, 2013 → 2023: 8 → 5. 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 Deepwater’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes each way for Deepwater’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Deepwater workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 86 commuters (the 13% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Deepwater
About 31% 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 Deepwater: questions
What is the median household income in Deepwater?
$29,722 (±$11,929) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Deepwater?
36.2%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Deepwater?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Deepwater work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clinton (32%, 8 mi), Montrose (7%, 11 mi), Springfield (5%, 78 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Deepwater without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Deepwater, from the people who make the trip.
More of Deepwater
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.