Mount Zion Church and Cemetery · Photo: User:Grey Wanderer · CC BY-SA 3.0Columbia draws more than half of Hallsville’s working residents
For jobs and income Hallsville is better than 40% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (B). Only 4% stay in Hallsville for work; outside it, Columbia is the main destination (58%, 13 miles). Working residents average 23 minutes each way, about the same as across Missouri.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Hallsville in brief
Why Hallsville gets the Jobs & income grade it does
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Hallsville’s grade.
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Hallsville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Hallsville could be anywhere from C− to B.
Where people from Hallsville work
Where Hallsville clocks in
58% of workers
4% 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.
How many people are in Hallsville by day
On a workday 672 residents head out to work, 31 work right here, and 335 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Hallsville on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.52 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What work there is in Hallsville: 366 jobs
366 jobs are based in Hallsville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hallsville, 2013 → 2023: 395 → 366. 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 Hallsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Hallsville spends getting to work: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hallsville workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 864 commuters (the 8% 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.
How far Hallsville’s workers travel
About 16% 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.
In Hallsville, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.2% across Missouri, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 938 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.1% of Hallsville households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hallsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Hallsville is 2,943rd of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Warson Woods MO | 1,990 | $207K | 1.3% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Weatherby Lake MO | 2,139 | $153K | 3.4% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 57 | Lake Winnebago MO | 1,869 | $179K | 1.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,941 | Wayne Township OH | 1,527 | $65K | 8.2% | 4.4% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,942 | Pine Lakes FL | 1,437 | $78K | 5.9% | 20.2% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,943 | Hallsville MO | 1,742 | $71K | 11.9% | 3.4% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,944 | Central Square NY | 1,852 | $70K | 15.1% | 4.8% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,945 | St. Paris OH | 1,884 | $58K | 6.5% | 5.9% | 5% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Hallsville, the top three, the last and three more from Missouri.
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 Hallsville: questions
What is the median household income in Hallsville?
$71,000 (±$15,629) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hallsville?
11.9%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hallsville?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hallsville work?
4% work in town.
Is Hallsville walkable?
Hallsville is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hallsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hallsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hallsville
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.