Photo: TCP04 · CC BY 4.0High Hill has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.6 for each
There are 38 jobs in High Hill, and 68 of its residents work somewhere. Only 1% work in High Hill; the top destination outside it is Jonesburg (9%, 4 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Missouri as a whole has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of High Hill
On a workday 67 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 37 people come in from elsewhere.
About 160 people are in High Hill 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 High Hill goes to work
Where High Hill clocks in
9% of workers
7% of workers
7% 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.
Making and building: 100% of jobs based in High Hill
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in High Hill, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 38. 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 High Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 31 minutes each way for High Hill’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of High Hill workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 102 commuters (the 0% 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.
Miles to work from High Hill
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.
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 High Hill: questions
What is the median household income in High Hill?
$63,750 (±$18,590) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in High Hill?
22.3%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from High Hill?
31 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in High Hill work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jonesburg (9%, 4 mi), New Florence (7%, 5 mi), Montgomery City (7%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around High Hill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from High Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of High Hill
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.