Photo: TCP04 · CC BY 4.0For more than half of its working residents, St. Martins is a commute to Jefferson City
Working residents average 20 minutes each way, where Missouri has 24 and the U.S. 26. For jobs and income St. Martins is better than 75% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (D). Only 1% work in St. Martins itself; outside it, Jefferson City draws the most (56%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from St. Martins, in brief
More than half of St. Martins works in Jefferson City
383 working residents, 56%, have their main job in Jefferson City, 8.8 miles away. That’s 56 times as many as work in St. Martins itself. The commute map ↓
St. Martins makes and builds things
53% of the jobs based in St. Martins are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs St. Martins residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 16%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 684 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for St. Martins
The poverty rate is its strongest input (5.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 53% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: St. Martins’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, St. Martins could be anywhere from B− to A.
Where the trip to work from St. Martins ends
Where St. Martins clocks in
56% of workers
9% of workers
1% 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: 53% of St. Martins’ jobs are in goods
328 jobs are based in St. Martins.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Martins, 2013 → 2023: 258 → 328. 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 St. Martins’s own residents hold wherever they work.
St. Martins on a workday afternoon
On a workday 676 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 320 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in St. Martins on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.
0.48 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.
How long St. Martins spends getting to work: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. Martins workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 494 commuters (the 14% 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.
Where in the region St. Martins works
About 16% 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.
Most trips from St. Martins start in a car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 575 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). 3.9% of St. Martins households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of St. Martins’ commuters take a bus or train.
St. Martins places 626th of 4,866 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
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| 35 | Loch Lloyd MO | 1,090 | $184K | 2.5% | 0.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | LaBarque Creek MO | 1,457 | $133K | 1.1% | 1.7% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 106 | Fremont Hills MO | 1,098 | $171K | 3.9% | 1.9% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 624 | Rudolph WI | 1,022 | $89K | 2.6% | 1.3% | 1% | A− |
| 625 | Williamsville IL | 1,437 | $107K | 6.9% | 1.0% | 4% | A− |
| 626 | St. Martins MO | 1,242 | $89K | 5.0% | 2.1% | 1% | A− |
| 627 | Texas Township IL | 1,233 | $87K | 2.9% | 0.7% | 4% | A− |
| 628 | Ogden Township IL | 1,506 | $97K | 5.5% | 4.2% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 St. Martins, 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 St. Martins: questions
What is the median household income in St. Martins?
$89,250 (±$28,142) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in St. Martins?
5.0%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. Martins?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in St. Martins work?
1% work in town.
Is St. Martins walkable?
St. Martins is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around St. Martins without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from St. Martins, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Martins
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.