Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Marston has 4.8 jobs for every working resident: 542 people commute in to work
Employers in Marston report 546 jobs, and 114 of its residents work somewhere. Only 4% work in Marston itself; outside it, New Madrid draws the most (13%, 6 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers (Missouri 13%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Marston, and who commutes in
On a workday 110 residents head out to work and 4 work right here.
About 790 people are in Marston on a workday afternoon, 119% 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.
Where Marston’s workers come from
Where Marston clocks in
13% of workers
11% 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.
Marston makes things: 97% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marston, 2013 → 2023: 85 → 546. 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 Marston’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Marston: about 47 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 15.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marston workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 152 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Marston
About 33% 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 Marston: questions
What is the median household income in Marston?
$35,000 (±$10,664) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marston?
32.5%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marston?
47 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marston work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New Madrid (13%, 6 mi), Sikeston (11%, 25 mi), Portageville (7%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Marston without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marston, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marston
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.