Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0About half of Miner’s working residents commute to Sikeston
Commuters spend 14 minutes getting to work on average; the Missouri average is 24, the U.S. 26. Home is the office for 6% of workers, next to 13% for Missouri as a whole. There are 951 jobs in Miner for 408 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Miner apart on work
Nearly half of Miner works in Sikeston
194 working residents, 48%, have their main job in Sikeston, 3.2 miles away across the town line. That’s 10 times as many as work in Miner itself. The commute map ↓
Miner is where the jobs are
Miner has 951 jobs, 2.3 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,400 people are in town, 61% more than the 890 who live here. Day and night ↓
Most Miner residents work close to home
60% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. 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; with 408 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The towns that send workers to Miner
Where Miner clocks in
48% 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.
A workday in Miner: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 389 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 932 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Miner on a workday afternoon, 61% more than live here.
2.3 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Miner
About 17% 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 kinds of work in Miner
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Miner, 2013 → 2023: 1,136 → 951. 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 Miner’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 14 minutes each way for Miner’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Miner workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 374 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.
48% of Miner works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Sikeston. Darker towns draw more of Miner’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Miner: questions
What is the median household income in Miner?
$52,000 (±$11,675) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Miner?
14.4%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Miner?
14 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Miner work?
5% work in town.
Can you get around Miner without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Miner, from the people who make the trip.
More of Miner
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.