Flordell Hills has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
33 jobs are based in Flordell Hills for 264 working residents. Hardly any stay in Flordell Hills for work; outside it, St. Louis is the main destination (26%, 6 miles). Working from home is the commute for 1% of workers; Missouri has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Flordell Hills in brief
Flordell Hills and St. Louis trade workers both ways
St. Louis is the top workplace for Flordell Hills residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Flordell Hills come from (30% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Flordell Hills is a place people come home to
There are 33 jobs based in Flordell Hills, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Flordell Hills has about 470 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Most Flordell Hills residents work close to home
63% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. Only 6% work more than 50 miles away. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 264 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where people from Flordell Hills work
Where Flordell Hills clocks in
26% of workers
3% 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.
Who works in Flordell Hills, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 264 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 33 people come in from elsewhere.
About 470 people are in Flordell Hills on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where in the region Flordell Hills works
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most jobs in Flordell Hills are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Flordell Hills, 2014 → 2024: 28 → 33. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Flordell Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Flordell Hills: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Flordell Hills workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 345 commuters (the 1% 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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Flordell Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Flordell Hills?
$36,410 (±$17,824) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Flordell Hills?
41.1%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Flordell Hills?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Flordell Hills work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Louis (26%, 6 mi), Maryland Heights (5%, 11 mi), St. Peters (3%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Flordell Hills without a car?
5% of commuters take transit and 26% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Flordell Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Flordell Hills
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.