Photo: Paul Sableman · CC BY 2.0Kimmswick draws 131 commuters a day, with 2.2 jobs for every working resident
5% of workers have no commute at all, where Missouri as a whole has 13%. There are 131 jobs in Kimmswick for 60 working residents. Hardly any stay in Kimmswick for work; outside it, St. Louis is the main destination (17%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Kimmswick for work, and who comes in
On a workday 60 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 200 people are in Kimmswick on a workday afternoon, 53% 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.
Commuting in to Kimmswick: where workers come from
Where Kimmswick clocks in
17% of workers
10% 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.
What Kimmswick’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kimmswick, 2013 → 2023: 25 → 131. 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 Kimmswick’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Kimmswick 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 Kimmswick workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 55 commuters (the 5% 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 Kimmswick
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 Kimmswick: questions
What is the median household income in Kimmswick?
$68,750 (±$18,619) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kimmswick?
0.0%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kimmswick?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kimmswick work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Louis (17%, 20 mi), Arnold (10%, 4 mi), Creve Coeur (7%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Kimmswick 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 Kimmswick, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kimmswick
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.