Photo: RebelAt at English Wikipedia · Public domainHouseholds in Neosho earn less than those in 77% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 5% of workers, where Missouri as a whole has 13%. Below the poverty line: 15.2% of residents (Missouri 12.6%). Neosho grades C for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Neosho stands out on work
Neosho trades workers with the towns around it
Neosho has about as many jobs (6,124) as working residents (5,122), but they are mostly different people: 3,686 residents leave for work each day while 4,688 people come in. Only 23% of the jobs in Neosho are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Neosho draws workers from far and wide
The 6,124 jobs in Neosho are filled from a wide area. Neosho’s own residents hold 23% and the ten next-biggest home towns 18%; the other 59% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Neosho are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 24 across Missouri. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Missouri worker. 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.
How Neosho earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Neosho is better than 28% of U.S. towns, #153 of 247 in Missouri. Unemployment holds Neosho’s grade up (4.5%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($57,891, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Neosho could be anywhere from D to B−.
A workday in Neosho: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 3,686 residents head out to work, 1,436 work right here, and 4,688 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.20 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.
19% of working residents work in Joplin
Where Neosho clocks in
19% 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.
From Neosho, about 19 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Neosho workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,486 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.
Goods jobs make up 28% of work in Neosho
6,124 jobs are based in Neosho.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Neosho, 2013 → 2023: 6,925 → 6,124. 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 Neosho’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Neosho works
About 19% 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.
Most of Neosho commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Neosho is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns, #112 of 247 in Missouri. Both inputs place Neosho 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 5,775 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). 6.4% of Neosho households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Neosho’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 10,000 to 19,000, Neosho ranks 1,789th of 2,227 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Town and Country MO | 11,619 | $233K | 1.7% | 2.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Dardenne Prairie MO | 15,032 | $153K | 1.3% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 128 | Crestwood MO | 12,207 | $107K | 5.5% | 1.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,787 | Worth IL | 10,696 | $56K | 21.1% | 8.5% | 4% | C |
| 1,788 | Washington IN | 12,991 | $50K | 18.2% | 2.8% | 32% | C |
| 1,789 | Neosho MO | 14,078 | $58K | 15.2% | 4.5% | 28% | C |
| 1,790 | Valley AL | 10,294 | $52K | 14.9% | 3.5% | 8% | C |
| 1,791 | Dade City FL | 10,173 | $70K | 11.2% | 8.1% | 8% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,227 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Neosho, 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 Neosho: questions
What is the median household income in Neosho?
$57,891 (±$5,104) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Neosho?
15.2%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Neosho?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Neosho work?
28% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Joplin (19%, 17 mi), Springfield (5%, 64 mi), Noel (4%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Neosho walkable?
Neosho is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Neosho 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 Neosho, from the people who make the trip.
More of Neosho
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.