Photo: TCP04 · CC BY 4.0Making a living in Defiance
0% of workers have no commute at all (Missouri 13%). Only 1% work in Defiance itself; outside it, St. Louis draws the most (9%, 29 miles). Defiance has 69 jobs, and 70 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Defiance, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 69 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 68 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 (0.99 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.
Where Defiance’s working residents head each day
Where Defiance clocks in
9% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
What Defiance’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Defiance, 2013 → 2023: 56 → 69. 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 Defiance’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Defiance
of Defiance workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 17 commuters (the 0% 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.
The commute from Defiance, by distance
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 Defiance: questions
What is the poverty rate in Defiance?
0.0%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Defiance work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Louis (9%, 29 mi), Washington (7%, 14 mi), Wentzville (6%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Defiance without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Defiance, from the people who make the trip.
More of Defiance
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.