Prairie Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Working from home is the commute for 25% of workers, next to 13% for Missouri as a whole. There are 1 jobs in Prairie Township, against 75 working residents. Hardly any stay in Prairie Township for work; outside it, Carrollton is the main destination (17%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Prairie Township
On a workday 75 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 63 people are in Prairie Township on a workday afternoon, 54% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Prairie Township goes to work
Where Prairie Township clocks in
17% of workers
9% of workers
7% 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.
In Prairie Township, 100% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Prairie Township, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 1. 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 Prairie Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Prairie Township’s commute takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Prairie Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 88 commuters (the 25% 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.
The distance from Prairie Township to work
About 31% 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.
Next door to Prairie Township
The biggest share goes to Egypt Township (3%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Prairie Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Township | – | — | — | 28 min | $91,250 |
| Trotter Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Egypt Township | 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Fairfield Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Trotter Township, Egypt Township and Fairfield Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Prairie Township’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 Prairie Township: questions
What is the median household income in Prairie Township?
$91,250 (±$60,549) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Prairie Township?
2.8%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Prairie Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Prairie Township work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Carrollton (17%, 12 mi), Kansas City (9%, 49 mi), Norborne (7%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Prairie Township 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 Prairie Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Prairie Township
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.