Photo: Guerreroast · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: Olivette has 1.9 jobs per working resident, and 6,802 people come in to work
Olivette has 6,879 jobs; 3,572 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Olivette is better than 92% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (A−). Measured by household income, Olivette is ahead of 84% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Olivette, in brief
Most Olivette residents work close to home
74% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about three in four. Only 7% work more than 50 miles away. How far ↓
Olivette draws workers from far and wide
The 6,879 jobs in Olivette are filled from a wide area. The ten biggest home towns of its workers supply 26%; the other 73% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Home offices are common in Olivette
28% of Olivette workers work from home, against 13% across Missouri. Time on the road ↓
Olivette is where the jobs are
Olivette has 6,879 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Olivette 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.
Where Olivette’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 96% of U.S. towns); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.9%, 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, Olivette could be anywhere from A− to A+.
The commute from Olivette, by distance
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 daily trip into Olivette
Where Olivette clocks in
23% 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.
Each way, about 19 minutes from Olivette
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Olivette workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,073 commuters (the 28% 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.
Olivette fills up on a workday
On a workday 3,495 residents head out to work and 77 work right here.
About 12,000 people are in Olivette on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
65% of the jobs in Olivette pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Olivette, 2013 → 2023: 6,667 → 6,879. 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 Olivette’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Good to walk, short on transit: Olivette
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.8% 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 4,274 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 68% 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 2.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 73% 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). 2.9% of Olivette households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Olivette’s commuters take a bus or train.
Olivette is 341st of 2,862 U.S. towns of 6,300 to 12,100 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Town and Country MO | 11,619 | $233K | 1.7% | 2.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 339 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| 340 | Marlboro Village MD | 9,382 | $123K | 2.5% | 4.6% | <1% | A |
| 341 | Olivette MO | 8,937 | $112K | 4.3% | 3.9% | 2% | A |
| 342 | Aubrey TX | 9,066 | $102K | 7.8% | 1.2% | 2% | A |
| 343 | Cedar Hills UT | 9,755 | $139K | 4.2% | 3.5% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,862 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Olivette, the top three, the last and three more from Missouri.
Olivette and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Olivette workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olivette | – | A | A− | 19 min | $111,660 |
| University City | under 2% | B | A+ | 22 min | $80,694 |
| Overland | under 2% | B− | B+ | 20 min | $61,773 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Olivette’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 Olivette: questions
What is the median household income in Olivette?
$111,660 (±$8,828) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Olivette?
4.3%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Olivette?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Olivette work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Louis (23%, 8 mi), Creve Coeur (8%, 4 mi), Maryland Heights (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Olivette walkable?
Olivette is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 11.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Olivette without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Olivette, from the people who make the trip.
More of Olivette
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.