Prairie Hill has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Home is the office for 43% of workers, against 13% across Missouri. 5 jobs are based in Prairie Hill; 29 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Prairie Hill; the top destination outside it is Salisbury (38%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Prairie Hill
On a workday 29 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 5 people come in from elsewhere.
About 96 people are in Prairie Hill on a workday afternoon, 20% 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 people from Prairie Hill work
Where Prairie Hill clocks in
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.
Prairie Hill makes things: 100% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Prairie Hill, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 5. 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 Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Prairie Hill
of Prairie Hill workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 35 commuters (the 43% 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 Hill to work
About 29% 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 Prairie Hill: questions
What is the poverty rate in Prairie Hill?
0.0%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Prairie Hill work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salisbury (38%, 8 mi), Moberly (10%, 18 mi), Kansas City (7%, 101 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Prairie Hill 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 Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Prairie Hill
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.