Photo: robertstinnett from Boonville, MO, USA · CC BY 2.0Fortuna has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Working from home is the commute for 45% of workers, next to 13% for Missouri as a whole. There are 3 jobs in Fortuna; 43 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Fortuna itself; outside it, Tipton draws the most (12%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Fortuna, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 43 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 220 people are in Fortuna on a workday afternoon, 16% 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 people from Fortuna work
Where Fortuna clocks in
12% of workers
12% of workers
9% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Fortuna
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 Fortuna’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Fortuna
of Fortuna workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 72 commuters (the 45% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Fortuna
About 33% 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 Fortuna: questions
What is the median household income in Fortuna?
$115,560 (±$86,328) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fortuna?
2.0%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Fortuna work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tipton (12%, 6 mi), Jefferson City (12%, 34 mi), California (9%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fortuna 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 Fortuna, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fortuna
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.