Rainey Funeral Home Building · Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0For about two in five of its working residents, Marshfield is a commute to Springfield
6% of workers work from home, against 13% across Missouri. The two grades for Marshfield are C+ for jobs and income and A− for walkability. About one in five stay in Marshfield for work; outside it, Springfield is the main destination (40%, 23 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Marshfield
The four measures behind Marshfield’s grade
Unemployment holds Marshfield’s grade up (3.4%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (18.1%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Marshfield could be anywhere from C− to B.
Where the trip to work from Marshfield ends
Where Marshfield clocks in
40% of workers
1% 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.
How a workday changes Marshfield
On a workday 2,239 residents head out to work, 653 work right here, and 3,061 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,900 people are in Marshfield on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.28 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Inside Marshfield’s 3,714 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marshfield, 2013 → 2023: 3,103 → 3,714. 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 Marshfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes to work from Marshfield
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marshfield workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,087 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.
Half of Marshfield commutes less than 22 miles
About 18% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Marshfield
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marshfield is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns, #44 of 247 in Missouri. Both inputs place Marshfield 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 3,266 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). 8.0% of Marshfield households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Marshfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Marshfield is 2,009th of 2,966 U.S. towns of 5,700 to 10,900 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,007 | Livingston MT | 9,290 | $66K | 13.7% | 1.9% | 37% | C+ |
| 2,008 | Country Homes WA | 6,198 | $85K | 14.2% | 7.8% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,009 | Marshfield MO | 8,078 | $68K | 18.1% | 3.4% | 23% | C+ |
| 2,010 | Dalton MA | 6,157 | $79K | 7.4% | 7.2% | 14% | C+ |
| 2,011 | Ione CA | 9,282 | $91K | 8.1% | 6.0% | 7% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,966 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Marshfield, 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 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 Marshfield: questions
What is the median household income in Marshfield?
$67,642 (±$4,720) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marshfield?
18.1%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marshfield?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marshfield work?
23% work in town.
Is Marshfield walkable?
Marshfield is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marshfield without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marshfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marshfield
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. 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.