Photo: Kbh3rd · CC BY 4.0Warsaw’s household incomes are lower than in 95% of U.S. towns
At home: 3% of workers have no commute at all (Missouri 13%). 20.1% of residents live below the poverty line, where Missouri as a whole has 12.6%. For jobs and income Warsaw is better than 3% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (B+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Warsaw and work: the main findings
Warsaw is where the jobs are
Warsaw has 1,465 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Warsaw’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Warsaw is Sedalia, 32 miles away as the crow flies. 11% of working residents (80) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 700 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Warsaw
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Warsaw’s grade.
Unemployment (3.7%) is left out: Warsaw’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, Warsaw could be anywhere from D− to D.
The workday shuffle in and out of Warsaw
On a workday 585 residents head out to work, 115 work right here, and 1,350 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,100 people are in Warsaw on a workday afternoon, 33% more than live here.
2.1 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Warsaw
About 38% 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.
Where the people who work in Warsaw live
Where Warsaw clocks in
11% of workers
5% 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.
The kinds of work in Warsaw
1,465 jobs are based in Warsaw.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Warsaw, 2013 → 2023: 1,322 → 1,465. 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 Warsaw’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Warsaw takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Warsaw workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 566 commuters (the 3% 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 Warsaw is mostly behind the wheel
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.2% across Missouri.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 584 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). 8.3% of Warsaw households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Warsaw’s commuters take a bus or train.
Warsaw next to U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Warson Woods MO | 1,990 | $207K | 1.3% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 53 | Weatherby Lake MO | 2,139 | $153K | 3.4% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 54 | Lake Winnebago MO | 1,869 | $179K | 1.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,298 | Liberty KY | 2,021 | $29K | 32.1% | 2.6% | 23% | D− |
| 5,299 | Jamestown KY | 1,901 | $21K | 44.4% | 16.2% | 15% | D− |
| 5,300 | Warsaw MO | 2,338 | $41K | 20.1% | 3.7% | 16% | D− |
| 5,301 | Kingstree SC | 3,022 | $26K | 33.9% | 6.8% | 16% | D− |
| 5,302 | Falmouth KY | 2,200 | $35K | 27.8% | 3.5% | 17% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,552 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Warsaw, 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 Warsaw: questions
What is the median household income in Warsaw?
$41,413 (±$8,417) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Warsaw?
20.1%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Warsaw?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Warsaw work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sedalia (11%, 32 mi), Clinton (5%, 23 mi), Springfield (4%, 73 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Warsaw walkable?
Warsaw is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 10.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Warsaw without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Warsaw, from the people who make the trip.
More of Warsaw
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.