Photo: Christian Collins · CC BY-SA 2.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Oakville works elsewhere
Measured by household income, Oakville is ahead of 81% of U.S. towns. Employers in Oakville report 5,587 jobs for 16,751 working residents. For jobs and income Oakville is better than 85% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (B−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Oakville at work: what stands out
Oakville draws workers from far and wide
The 5,587 jobs in Oakville are filled from a wide area. Oakville’s own residents hold 14% and the ten next-biggest home towns 24%; the other 62% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Oakville empties out on a workday
About 24,000 people are in Oakville on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than the 35,000 who live here: 16,000 head out to work and 4,800 come in. Day and night ↓
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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Oakville
Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 89% of U.S. towns); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (4.0%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Oakville could be anywhere from B+ to A.
21% of working residents work in St. Louis
Where Oakville clocks in
21% of workers
4% 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.
Who works in Oakville, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 15,955 residents head out to work, 796 work right here, and 4,791 people come in from elsewhere.
About 24,000 people are in Oakville on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer 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.
What Oakville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oakville, 2013 → 2023: 4,867 → 5,587. 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 Oakville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Oakville takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oakville workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 14,068 commuters (the 19% 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.
How many miles Oakville commutes
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.
Oakville is a driving town
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.2% across Missouri.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 17,285 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 25% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.7% of Oakville households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Oakville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Oakville is 341st of 1,219 U.S. towns of 25,000 to 48,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Wildwood MO | 34,955 | $161K | 2.2% | 2.3% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 108 | Ballwin MO | 30,901 | $125K | 4.8% | 2.9% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 117 | Kirkwood MO | 29,331 | $121K | 5.3% | 3.1% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 339 | Simsbury CT | 25,582 | $158K | 4.8% | 5.0% | 15% | A |
| 340 | Mamaroneck NY | 31,479 | $164K | 7.4% | 5.2% | 10% | A− |
| 341 | Oakville MO | 35,333 | $106K | 6.4% | 4.0% | 5% | A− |
| 342 | Carmel NY | 34,442 | $132K | 4.4% | 4.4% | 13% | A− |
| 343 | Windsor CA | 25,864 | $134K | 5.9% | 3.6% | 11% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,219 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Oakville, the top three, the last and three more from Missouri.
How Oakville compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Mehlville (3%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Oakville’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 Oakville: questions
What is the median household income in Oakville?
$106,362 (±$4,380) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oakville?
6.4%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oakville?
28 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oakville work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Louis (21%, 14 mi), Creve Coeur (4%, 16 mi), Maryland Heights (4%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Oakville walkable?
Oakville is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Oakville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oakville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oakville
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.