Sam A. Baker State Park Historic District · Photo: Kbh3rd · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Des Arc works elsewhere
Working residents average 18 minutes each way, next to 24 for Missouri and 26 for the U.S. Employers in Des Arc report 1 jobs, against 34 working residents. Hardly any work in Des Arc itself; outside it, Annapolis draws the most (24%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Des Arc on a workday
On a workday 34 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 88 people are in Des Arc on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
The places Des Arc commutes to
Where Des Arc clocks in
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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Des Arc
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Des Arc, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 1. 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 Des Arc’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 18 minutes to work from Des Arc
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Des Arc workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 76 commuters (the 16% 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 Des Arc, by distance
About 47% 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 Des Arc: questions
What is the median household income in Des Arc?
$80,938 (±$31,232) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Des Arc?
9.9%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Des Arc?
18 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Des Arc work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Annapolis (24%, 6 mi), St. Louis (6%, 96 mi), Germantown (3%, 106 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Des Arc without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Des Arc, from the people who make the trip.
More of Des Arc
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.