Photo: Keith Snyder · CC BY-SA 4.0Stella has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Commuters spend 32 minutes getting to work on average, next to 24 for Missouri and 26 for the U.S. 22 jobs are based in Stella for 59 working residents. Only 3% work in Stella itself; outside it, Neosho draws the most (20%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Stella by day and by night
On a workday 57 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 20 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Stella on a workday afternoon, 22% 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 Stella goes to work
Where Stella clocks in
20% of workers
17% of workers
8% 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 Stella: what the 22 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stella, 2013 → 2023: 14 → 22. 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 Stella’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 32 minutes to work from Stella
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stella workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 65 commuters (the 8% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Stella
About 22% 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 Stella: questions
What is the median household income in Stella?
$42,500 (±$25,236) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stella?
71.5%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stella?
32 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stella work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Neosho (20%, 12 mi), Joplin (17%, 28 mi), Springfield (8%, 58 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Stella 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 Stella, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stella
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.