Photo: Ichabod · CC BY-SA 3.0Maysville’s household incomes are lower than in 93% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 18.4% of residents (Missouri 12.6%). Maysville grades D for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Home is the office for 2% of workers; Missouri has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Maysville and work: the main findings
Maysville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Maysville is St. Joseph, 26 miles away as the crow flies. 16% of working residents (79) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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 ↓
Few Maysville workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 13% across Missouri. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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; with 490 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Maysville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Maysville is better than 6% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Maysville’s grade.
Unemployment (2.2%) is left out: Maysville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Maysville could be anywhere from D− to C.
Half of Maysville commutes less than 27 miles
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.
How long Maysville spends getting to work: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Maysville workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 421 commuters (the 2% 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.
A workday in Maysville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 410 residents head out to work, 80 work right here, and 272 people come in from elsewhere.
About 930 people are in Maysville on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.72 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
16% of working residents work in St. Joseph
Where Maysville clocks in
16% of workers
9% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Maysville
352 jobs are based in Maysville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Maysville, 2013 → 2023: 418 → 352. 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 Maysville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Maysville
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Maysville is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Maysville 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 430 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). 7.6% of Maysville households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Maysville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Maysville ranks: 2,777th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Loch Lloyd MO | 1,090 | $184K | 2.5% | 0.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Fremont Hills MO | 1,098 | $171K | 3.9% | 1.9% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Bel-Nor MO | 1,351 | $111K | 5.8% | 8.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,775 | Falcon Lake Estates TX | 1,075 | $66K | 33.0% | 3.3% | 6% | D |
| 2,776 | Oak Grove LA | 1,350 | $51K | 16.8% | 2.2% | 31% | D |
| 2,777 | Maysville MO | 1,071 | $44K | 18.4% | 2.2% | 16% | D |
| 2,778 | Leadwood MO | 1,158 | $45K | 36.0% | 2.7% | 1% | D |
| 2,779 | Panama OK | 1,314 | $47K | 29.0% | 6.2% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Maysville, 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 Maysville: questions
What is the median household income in Maysville?
$44,271 (±$21,307) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Maysville?
18.4%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Maysville?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Maysville work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Joseph (16%, 26 mi), Kansas City (9%, 53 mi), Cameron (8%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Maysville walkable?
Maysville is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Maysville without a car?
0% 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 Maysville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Maysville
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.