With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Sundown works elsewhere
Hardly any stay in Sundown for work; outside it, Gainesville is the main destination (26%, 12 miles). 1 jobs are based in Sundown; 19 of its residents have a job. 0% of workers have no commute at all, against 13% across Missouri.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Sundown, and who commutes in
On a workday 19 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 160 people are in Sundown on a workday afternoon, 10% 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.
The places Sundown commutes to
Where Sundown clocks in
11% 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.
In Sundown, 100% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Sundown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Sundown, about 77 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 24.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sundown workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 54 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.
How far Sundown’s workers travel
About 35% 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 Sundown: questions
What is the poverty rate in Sundown?
31.5%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sundown?
77 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sundown work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gainesville (26%, 12 mi), Mountain Home (11%, 21 mi), Ava (11%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Sundown 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 Sundown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sundown
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.