Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0A job hub: Dudley has 35.4 jobs per working resident, and 1,166 people come in to work
There are 1,169 jobs in Dudley, and 33 of its residents work somewhere. About one in ten stay in Dudley for work; outside it, Puxico is the main destination (18%, 12 miles). For 6% of workers, the job is at home, against 13% across Missouri.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Dudley
On a workday 30 residents head out to work and 3 work right here.
About 1,200 people are in Dudley on a workday afternoon, 1125% more 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 Dudley’s workforce comes from
Where Dudley clocks in
12% 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.
Goods, not services: 98% of the jobs in Dudley
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dudley, 2013 → 2023: 632 → 1,169. 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 Dudley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 13 minutes each way for Dudley’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dudley workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 66 commuters (the 6% 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 Dudley
About 15% 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 Dudley: questions
What is the median household income in Dudley?
$50,750 (±$18,479) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dudley?
7.1%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dudley?
13 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dudley work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Puxico (18%, 12 mi), Dexter (12%, 7 mi), Poplar Bluff (12%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Dudley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 22% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dudley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dudley
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.