Most of Portage Des Sioux commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Portage Des Sioux report 22 jobs for 183 working residents. Hardly any stay in Portage Des Sioux for work; outside it, St. Charles is the main destination (11%, 13 miles). Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers, where Missouri as a whole has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Portage Des Sioux by day
On a workday 182 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 21 people come in from elsewhere.
About 160 people are in Portage Des Sioux on a workday afternoon, 50% 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.
Where Portage Des Sioux’s working residents head each day
Where Portage Des Sioux clocks in
8% of workers
6% 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.
A place that makes things: 64% of Portage Des Sioux’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Portage Des Sioux, 2014 → 2024: 24 → 22. 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 Portage Des Sioux’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 34 minutes from Portage Des Sioux
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Portage Des Sioux workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 135 commuters (the 6% 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 Portage Des Sioux goes to work
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 Portage Des Sioux: questions
What is the median household income in Portage Des Sioux?
$62,188 (±$10,443) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Portage Des Sioux?
12.6%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Portage Des Sioux?
34 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Portage Des Sioux work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Charles (11%, 13 mi), St. Peters (8%, 18 mi), St. Louis (6%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Portage Des Sioux without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Portage Des Sioux, from the people who make the trip.
More of Portage Des Sioux
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.