Photo: Mcasagrand · CC BY-SA 4.0Sarcoxie has lower household incomes than 95% of U.S. towns
25.4% of residents are in poverty (Missouri 12.6%). Jobs and income earn Sarcoxie D; getting around on foot earns it B−. 4% of workers work from home; Missouri has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Sarcoxie: the figures worth knowing
The figures behind Sarcoxie’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Sarcoxie is better than 8% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Sarcoxie’s grade up (ahead of 42% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($41,705, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Sarcoxie’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Sarcoxie could be anywhere from D to C−.
From Sarcoxie, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sarcoxie workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 526 commuters (the 4% 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.
In and out of Sarcoxie on a workday
On a workday 498 residents head out to work, 32 work right here, and 355 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Sarcoxie on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.73 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.
21% of working residents work in Joplin
Where Sarcoxie clocks in
21% of workers
18% 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.
Jobs in Sarcoxie: what the 387 are
387 jobs are based in Sarcoxie.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sarcoxie, 2013 → 2023: 324 → 387. 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 Sarcoxie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Sarcoxie goes to work
About 19% 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.
Few in Sarcoxie walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sarcoxie is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Sarcoxie near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 547 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.8% of Sarcoxie households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sarcoxie’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900, Sarcoxie ranks 4,983rd of 5,877 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Loch Lloyd MO | 1,090 | $184K | 2.5% | 0.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Lake Winnebago MO | 1,869 | $179K | 1.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 97 | LaBarque Creek MO | 1,457 | $133K | 1.1% | 1.7% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,981 | London CA | 1,800 | $49K | 44.4% | 12.4% | 1% | D |
| 4,982 | Guthrie KY | 1,395 | $36K | 33.0% | 16.5% | 8% | D |
| 4,983 | Sarcoxie MO | 1,429 | $42K | 25.4% | 5.8% | 6% | D |
| 4,984 | Ellendale ND | 1,129 | $55K | 13.2% | 5.4% | 39% | D |
| 4,985 | Boise City OK | 1,040 | $43K | 10.4% | 0.0% | 0% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Sarcoxie, the top three, the last and three more from Missouri.
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 Sarcoxie: questions
What is the median household income in Sarcoxie?
$41,705 (±$17,167) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sarcoxie?
25.4%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sarcoxie?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sarcoxie work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Joplin (21%, 21 mi), Carthage (18%, 12 mi), Springfield (7%, 47 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sarcoxie walkable?
Sarcoxie is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sarcoxie without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sarcoxie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sarcoxie
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.