Nodaway County Courthouse · Photo: Americasroof with modifications by Kbh3rd · CC BY-SA 3.032% of Maryville’s residents are college students
Measured by family income, Maryville is behind 78% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Maryville C−; getting around on foot earns it A−. About half work in Maryville itself; outside it, St. Joseph draws the most (10%, 40 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Maryville and work: the main findings
Commutes from Maryville are quick
The average trip to work takes 11 minutes, against 24 across Missouri. That’s about 100 hours a year less on the road than the typical Missouri worker. Time on the road ↓
Maryville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Maryville is St. Joseph, 40 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (428) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A young workforce
34% of Maryville’s working residents are 29 or younger, about one in three. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
The four measures behind Maryville’s grade
On family income, poverty and job access, Maryville is better than 22% of U.S. towns, #176 of 247 in Missouri. The poverty rate holds Maryville’s grade up (11.1%, U.S. 11.9%); family income pulls it down ($71,764, U.S. $99,999).
Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (21% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 11.1%, against 24.4% for all residents. Unemployment (2.7%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($71,764), since student households pull the household median down ($53,352).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Maryville could be anywhere from D to B−.
Commuting from Maryville: about 11 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Maryville workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,823 commuters (the 6% 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 Maryville to work
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.
The jobs
6,119 jobs are based in Maryville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Maryville, 2013 → 2023: 5,982 → 6,119. 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 Maryville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Maryville fills up on a workday
On a workday 2,310 residents head out to work, 1,947 work right here, and 4,172 people come in from elsewhere.
About 12,000 people are in Maryville on a workday afternoon, 18% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.44 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.
The places Maryville commutes to
Where Maryville clocks in
10% of workers
5% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Maryville
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Maryville is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns, #52 of 247 in Missouri. Both inputs place Maryville 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 5,153 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). 10.1% of Maryville households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Maryville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Maryville ranks: 2,430th of 2,878 U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Town and Country MO | 11,619 | $233K | 1.7% | 2.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,428 | Liberty TX | 9,133 | $54K | 25.2% | 4.2% | 12% | C− |
| 2,429 | Winchendon MA | 10,620 | $76K | 18.5% | 6.7% | 11% | C− |
| 2,430 | Maryville MO | 10,092 | $53K | 24.4% | 2.7% | 46% | C− |
| 2,431 | Anaconda-Deer Lodge County MT | 9,709 | $58K | 16.3% | 3.4% | 41% | C− |
| 2,432 | Roosevelt UT | 7,032 | $76K | 15.9% | 6.1% | 37% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | 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 Maryville, 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.
- Students. 32% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Maryville: questions
What is the median household income in Maryville?
$53,352 (±$7,172) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Maryville?
24.4% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 11.1%. Missouri: 12.6%.
How long is the commute from Maryville?
11 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Maryville work?
46% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Joseph (10%, 40 mi), Kansas City (5%, 86 mi), Polk Township (2%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Maryville walkable?
Maryville is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 9.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Maryville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Maryville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Maryville
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.