Photo: Markkaempfer · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Ozora works elsewhere
0% of workers work from home; Missouri has 13%. There are 31 jobs in Ozora for 75 working residents. Hardly any work in Ozora; the top destination outside it is Ste. Genevieve (27%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Ozora, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 75 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 260 people are in Ozora on a workday afternoon, 15% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Ozora: the destinations
Where Ozora clocks in
27% of workers
7% 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.
Jobs in Ozora: what the 31 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ozora, 2014 → 2024: 30 → 31. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ozora’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 53 minutes to work from Ozora
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 17 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ozora workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 179 commuters (the 0% 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 far Ozora’s workers travel
About 28% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Ozora: questions
What is the poverty rate in Ozora?
49.5%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ozora?
53 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ozora work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ste. Genevieve (27%, 8 mi), Perryville (7%, 13 mi), Farmington (5%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Ozora 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 Ozora, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ozora
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.