Photo: Drowzy at English Wikipedia · Public domainA job hub: Eminence has 1.8 jobs per working resident, and 278 people come in to work
About one in five stay in Eminence for work; outside it, Summersville is the main destination (4%, 17 miles). Eminence has 315 jobs, against 171 working residents. 2% of workers work from home, where Missouri as a whole has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Eminence: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 134 residents head out to work and 37 work right here.
About 680 people are in Eminence on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 Eminence’s workforce comes from
Where Eminence clocks in
4% 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.
The kinds of work in Eminence
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eminence, 2013 → 2023: 306 → 315. 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 Eminence’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 70 minutes to work from Eminence
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 22.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eminence workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 88 commuters (the 2% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Eminence
About 28% 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 Eminence: questions
What is the median household income in Eminence?
$45,417 (±$14,202) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eminence?
30.8%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eminence?
70 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eminence work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Summersville (4%, 17 mi), Springfield (4%, 106 mi), Carroll Township (2%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Eminence 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 Eminence, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eminence
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.