Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Hayti Heights works elsewhere
There are 20 jobs in Hayti Heights for 159 working residents. A typical one-way commute lasts 25 minutes (Missouri 24, U.S. 26). For 6% of workers, the job is at home; Missouri has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Hayti Heights
On a workday 156 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 330 people are in Hayti Heights on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
24% of working residents work in Hayti
Where Hayti Heights clocks in
24% of workers
16% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Hayti Heights
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hayti Heights, 2013 → 2023: 44 → 20. 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 Hayti Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Hayti Heights spends getting to work: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hayti Heights workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 148 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.
How far Hayti Heights goes to work
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.
Next door is work for 24% of Hayti Heights
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hayti Heights workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hayti Heights | – | — | — | 25 min | $20,714 |
| Hayti | 24% | D− | B− | 21 min | $24,881 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Hayti. Darker towns draw more of Hayti Heights’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Hayti Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Hayti Heights?
$20,714 (±$14,769) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hayti Heights?
50.2%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hayti Heights?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hayti Heights work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hayti (24%, 1 mi), Caruthersville (16%, 7 mi), Portageville (3%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hayti Heights without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 29% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hayti Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hayti Heights
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.