Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Lilbourn works elsewhere
Working residents average 21 minutes each way; Missouri averages 24, the U.S. 26. Lilbourn has 70 jobs; 302 of its residents have a job. Only 1% work in Lilbourn; the top destination outside it is Sikeston (12%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Lilbourn apart on work
Lilbourn quiets down on a workday
On a workday 298 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 66 people come in from elsewhere.
About 670 people are in Lilbourn on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
The places Lilbourn commutes to
Where Lilbourn clocks in
12% of workers
12% of workers
8% 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.
Jobs in Lilbourn: what the 70 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lilbourn, 2013 → 2023: 137 → 70. 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 Lilbourn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Lilbourn, about 21 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lilbourn workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 317 commuters (the 7% 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.
The distance from Lilbourn to work
About 26% 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 Lilbourn: questions
What is the median household income in Lilbourn?
$40,625 (±$12,878) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lilbourn?
32.2%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lilbourn?
21 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lilbourn work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sikeston (12%, 20 mi), New Madrid (12%, 3 mi), Portageville (8%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lilbourn without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lilbourn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lilbourn
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.