Dauphine Hotel · Photo: John Foster · CC0Work and commuting in Tebbetts
Employers in Tebbetts report 14 jobs for 23 working residents. For 27% of workers, the job is at home, where Missouri as a whole has 13%. Hardly any work in Tebbetts; the top destination outside it is Jefferson City (26%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Tebbetts for work, and who comes in
On a workday 23 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 14 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.
0.61 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.
Where people from Tebbetts work
Where Tebbetts clocks in
26% of workers
9% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 50% of the jobs in Tebbetts
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tebbetts, 2013 → 2023: 7 → 14. 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 Tebbetts’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Tebbetts
of Tebbetts workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 189 commuters (the 27% 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 Tebbetts goes to work
About 17% 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 Tebbetts: questions
What is the median household income in Tebbetts?
$76,089 (±$13,343) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tebbetts?
61.4%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Tebbetts work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jefferson City (26%, 12 mi), Holts Summit (9%, 9 mi), Licking (4%, 77 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Tebbetts 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 Tebbetts, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tebbetts
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.