Novelty has 2.9 jobs for every working resident: 92 people commute in to work
5% of workers have no commute at all, next to 13% for Missouri as a whole. 93 jobs are based in Novelty, and 32 of its residents work somewhere. Only 3% work in Novelty itself; outside it, Columbia draws the most (9%, 74 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Novelty on a workday afternoon
On a workday 31 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 170 people are in Novelty on a workday afternoon, 54% 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.
The daily trip into Novelty
Where Novelty clocks in
9% of workers
3% 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.
Novelty makes things: 100% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Novelty, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 93. 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 Novelty’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 11 minutes in Novelty
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Novelty workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 18 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.
Half of Novelty commutes less than 47 miles
About 45% 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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Novelty workers work outside Missouri. The job records count 29% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Novelty: questions
What is the median household income in Novelty?
$69,167 (±$36,406) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Novelty?
1.6%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Novelty?
11 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Novelty work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbia (9%, 74 mi), Ellington Township (9%, 47 mi), Ursa (3%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Novelty without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Novelty, from the people who make the trip.
More of Novelty
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.