Most of Kissee Mills commutes out: there are 0.0 jobs for every working resident
5% of workers work from home; Missouri has 13%. 22 jobs are based in Kissee Mills, against 457 working residents. Kissee Mills grades C for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Kissee Mills, in brief
Kissee Mills is a place people come home to
There are 22 jobs based in Kissee Mills, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Kissee Mills has about 650 people in it, 40% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Kissee Mills workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 36 minutes each way, against 24 across Missouri. Over a year that’s about 276 hours of commuting, 92 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 457 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Kissee Mills earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Kissee Mills is better than 32% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Kissee Mills’ grade up (7.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Kissee Mills’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Kissee Mills could be anywhere from D to B+.
Kissee Mills by day and by night
On a workday 455 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 20 people come in from elsewhere.
About 650 people are in Kissee Mills on a workday afternoon, 40% 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 2024, primary jobs.
A commute of about 36 minutes in Kissee Mills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kissee Mills workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 316 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.
22% of working residents work in Branson
Where Kissee Mills clocks in
22% of workers
10% 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.
Kissee Mills is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kissee Mills, 2014 → 2024: 61 → 22. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Kissee Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Kissee Mills
About 20% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Kissee Mills, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kissee Mills is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Kissee Mills near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 333 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). 6.8% of Kissee Mills households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kissee Mills’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Kissee Mills is 2,017th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Loch Lloyd MO | 1,090 | $184K | 2.5% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | LaBarque Creek MO | 1,457 | $133K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 80 | Fremont Hills MO | 1,098 | $171K | 3.9% | 1.9% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,015 | West Park CA | 1,136 | $61K | 26.2% | 13.4% | <1% | C |
| 2,016 | Cedar Hill MO | 1,261 | $61K | 15.9% | 3.7% | 2% | C |
| 2,017 | Kissee Mills MO | 1,081 | $67K | 7.2% | 0.0% | <1% | C |
| 2,018 | Waverly IL | 1,142 | $56K | 7.9% | 4.9% | 7% | C |
| 2,019 | Brooklyn MI | 1,450 | $56K | 9.0% | 2.3% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Kissee Mills, 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 2024, 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 Kissee Mills: questions
What is the median household income in Kissee Mills?
$67,460 (±$38,016) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kissee Mills?
7.2%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kissee Mills?
36 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kissee Mills work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Branson (22%, 14 mi), Springfield (10%, 39 mi), Forsyth (8%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Kissee Mills walkable?
Kissee Mills is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kissee Mills without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kissee Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kissee Mills
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.