St. Catharine has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Employers in St. Catharine report 9 jobs; 34 of its residents have a job. Only 3% work in St. Catharine; the top destination outside it is Brookfield (29%, 4 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% 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
The daily flow of workers through St. Catharine
On a workday 33 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.
About 0 people are in St. Catharine on a workday afternoon, 100% 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 people from St. Catharine work
Where St. Catharine clocks in
12% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in St. Catharine
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Catharine, 2014 → 2024: 12 → 9. 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 St. Catharine’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in St. Catharine
of St. Catharine workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8 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.
Half of St. Catharine commutes less than 10 miles
About 21% 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 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 St. Catharine: questions
What is the poverty rate in St. Catharine?
0.0%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in St. Catharine work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Brookfield (29%, 4 mi), Marceline (12%, 6 mi), Trenton (6%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around St. Catharine 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 St. Catharine, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Catharine
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.