Photo: TCP04 · CC BY 4.0Households in Owensville earn less than those in 89% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 22.7% (Missouri 12.6%). Owensville grades D for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. At home: 3% of workers have no commute at all (Missouri 13%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Owensville apart on work
Owensville is where the jobs are
Owensville has 2,165 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Owensville makes and builds things
44% of the jobs based in Owensville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Owensville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 34%. The jobs ↓
Few Owensville workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 13% across Missouri. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Owensville
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Owensville is better than 13% of U.S. towns, #211 of 247 in Missouri. Unemployment holds Owensville’s grade up (4.2%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Owensville could be anywhere from D− to C.
The daily flow of workers through Owensville
On a workday 889 residents head out to work, 327 work right here, and 1,838 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,800 people are in Owensville on a workday afternoon, 34% more than live here.
1.8 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.
A place that makes things: 44% of Owensville’s jobs are in goods
2,165 jobs are based in Owensville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Owensville, 2013 → 2023: 2,155 → 2,165. 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 Owensville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Owensville, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Owensville workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,021 commuters (the 3% 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.
Where Owensville’s workforce comes from
Where Owensville clocks in
4% of workers
4% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Owensville
About 24% 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.
For most of Owensville, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Owensville is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns, #188 of 247 in Missouri. 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 1,055 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). 9.4% of Owensville households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Owensville’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Owensville is 4,016th of 4,703 U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Weatherby Lake MO | 2,139 | $153K | 3.4% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Clarkson Valley MO | 2,540 | $247K | 3.0% | 2.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 159 | Frontenac MO | 3,790 | $233K | 2.0% | 4.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,014 | Center Point NM | 2,286 | $51K | 11.6% | 7.4% | 2% | D |
| 4,015 | Brighton AL | 2,249 | $38K | 34.2% | 18.0% | 3% | D |
| 4,016 | Owensville MO | 2,802 | $49K | 22.7% | 4.2% | 27% | D |
| 4,017 | El Dorado Springs MO | 3,642 | $32K | 28.4% | 2.6% | 27% | D |
| 4,018 | Schulenburg TX | 2,837 | $51K | 17.2% | 5.3% | 33% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,703 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Owensville, 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 Owensville: questions
What is the median household income in Owensville?
$49,149 (±$3,378) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Owensville?
22.7%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Owensville?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Owensville work?
27% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Washington (4%, 30 mi), Jefferson City (4%, 40 mi), Union (3%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Owensville walkable?
Owensville is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Owensville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Owensville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Owensville
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.