Denver has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Missouri as a whole has 13%. Employers in Denver report 3 jobs for 14 working residents. Hardly any stay in Denver for work; outside it, Grant City is the main destination (14%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Denver: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 14 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 21 people are in Denver on a workday afternoon, 34% 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 Denver goes to work
Where Denver clocks in
14% of workers
7% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Denver
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Denver’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Denver
of Denver workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 15 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 distance from Denver to work
About 43% 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 Denver: questions
What is the median household income in Denver?
$24,792 (±$19,961) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Denver?
50.0%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Denver work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grant City (14%, 8 mi), Lamoni (7%, 26 mi), Kansas City (7%, 91 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Denver 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 Denver, from the people who make the trip.
More of Denver
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.