Lake Arrowhead has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Home is the office for 0% of workers; Missouri has 13%. Lake Arrowhead has 14 jobs, and 151 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Lake Arrowhead itself; outside it, Kansas City draws the most (25%, 28 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Lake Arrowhead, and who commutes in
On a workday 151 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 14 people come in from elsewhere.
About 0 people are in Lake Arrowhead on a workday afternoon, 100% 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.
Where people from Lake Arrowhead work
Where Lake Arrowhead clocks in
25% of workers
9% 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.
93% of the jobs in Lake Arrowhead pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lake Arrowhead, 2014 → 2024: 3 → 14. 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 Lake Arrowhead’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Lake Arrowhead
of Lake Arrowhead workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 22 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.
How far Lake Arrowhead goes to work
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.
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 Lake Arrowhead: questions
What is the median household income in Lake Arrowhead?
$34,886 (±$20,580) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lake Arrowhead?
0.0%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Lake Arrowhead work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kansas City (25%, 28 mi), Liberty (9%, 18 mi), Kearney (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Lake Arrowhead 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 Lake Arrowhead, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lake Arrowhead
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.