Household incomes in Stover are lower than in 90% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 16.2% of residents, where Missouri as a whole has 12.6%. The two grades for Stover are D for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. For 5% of workers, the job is at home, next to 13% for Missouri as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Stover: the gist
Stover’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Stover is better than 6% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Stover’s grade.
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Stover’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, Stover could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Where in the region Stover works
About 32% 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.
Who commutes out of Stover, and who commutes in
On a workday 269 residents head out to work, 48 work right here, and 362 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.29 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
15% of working residents work in Versailles
Where Stover clocks in
15% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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 Stover: what the 410 are
410 jobs are based in Stover.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stover, 2013 → 2023: 336 → 410. 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 Stover’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Stover: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stover workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 446 commuters (the 5% 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 commute in Stover is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Stover is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Stover 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 469 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). 6.0% of Stover households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Stover’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Stover ranks 2,740th of 3,133 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Loch Lloyd MO | 1,090 | $184K | 2.5% | 0.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Fremont Hills MO | 1,098 | $171K | 3.9% | 1.9% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Bel-Nor MO | 1,351 | $111K | 5.8% | 8.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,738 | Lone Star TX | 1,391 | $39K | 28.0% | 8.1% | 2% | D |
| 2,739 | Lake Linden MI | 1,041 | $43K | 13.8% | 9.2% | 3% | D |
| 2,740 | Stover MO | 1,064 | $48K | 16.2% | 1.1% | 15% | D |
| 2,741 | Creighton NE | 1,113 | $50K | 14.5% | 4.3% | 29% | D |
| 2,742 | Salineville OH | 1,149 | $48K | 21.5% | 2.2% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Stover, 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 Stover: questions
What is the median household income in Stover?
$48,438 (±$7,503) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stover?
16.2%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stover?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stover work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Versailles (15%, 8 mi), Springfield (4%, 88 mi), Jefferson City (4%, 45 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Stover walkable?
Stover is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stover without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stover, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stover
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.