Photo: TCP04 · CC BY 4.0Jonesburg has 2.1 jobs for every working resident: 577 people commute in to work
Jonesburg has 604 jobs, against 289 working residents. About one in ten work in Jonesburg itself; outside it, Montgomery City draws the most (6%, 13 miles). Working from home is the commute for 3% 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
Work in Jonesburg: the figures worth knowing
Jonesburg is where the jobs are
Jonesburg has 604 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Jonesburg makes and builds things
46% of the jobs based in Jonesburg are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Jonesburg residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 28%. The jobs ↓
Few Jonesburg workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 13% across Missouri. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 289 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Who commutes out of Jonesburg, and who commutes in
On a workday 262 residents head out to work and 27 work right here.
About 1,200 people are in Jonesburg on a workday afternoon, 36% more 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.
Goods jobs make up 46% of work in Jonesburg
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jonesburg, 2013 → 2023: 461 → 604. 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 Jonesburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Jonesburg’s commute takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jonesburg workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 383 commuters (the 3% 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.
Where Jonesburg’s workers come from
Where Jonesburg clocks in
6% of workers
5% 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.
Half of Jonesburg commutes less than 34 miles
About 24% 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 Jonesburg: questions
What is the median household income in Jonesburg?
$74,821 (±$29,019) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jonesburg?
14.5%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jonesburg?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jonesburg work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Montgomery City (6%, 13 mi), O'Fallon (5%, 32 mi), Truesdale (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Jonesburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jonesburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jonesburg
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.