Photo: Bernardgeorgeh · CC BY-SA 4.0About half of Phillipsburg’s working residents commute to Lebanon
At home: 0% of workers have no commute at all (Missouri 13%). Hardly any work in Phillipsburg; the top destination outside it is Lebanon (47%, 11 miles). The average commute takes 20 minutes each way (Missouri 24, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily commute in and out of Phillipsburg
On a workday 55 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 39 people come in from elsewhere.
About 150 people are in Phillipsburg on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.71 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Where Phillipsburg’s working residents head each day
Where Phillipsburg clocks in
47% 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.
What the 39 jobs in Phillipsburg are
39 jobs are based in Phillipsburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Phillipsburg, 2013 → 2023: 30 → 39. 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 Phillipsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Phillipsburg: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Phillipsburg workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 83 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.
Phillipsburg’s commute, mile by mile
About 22% 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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Phillipsburg: questions
What is the poverty rate in Phillipsburg?
7.5%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Phillipsburg?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Phillipsburg work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Phillipsburg 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 Phillipsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Phillipsburg
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.