Photo: TCP04 · CC BY 4.0Most of Wellsville commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Only 8% work in Wellsville; the top destination outside it is Montgomery City (10%, 8 miles). Wellsville has 162 jobs, against 439 working residents. The two grades for Wellsville are D for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Wellsville, in brief
Wellsville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 24 across Missouri. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% 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 439 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Wellsville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Wellsville is better than 13% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Wellsville’s grade up (14.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (6.2%) is left out: Wellsville’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, Wellsville could be anywhere from D− to C.
Time on the road from Wellsville: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wellsville workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 420 commuters (the 11% 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 many miles Wellsville commutes
About 31% 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.
In and out of Wellsville on a workday
On a workday 405 residents head out to work, 34 work right here, and 128 people come in from elsewhere.
About 740 people are in Wellsville on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 Wellsville’s working residents head each day
Where Wellsville clocks in
10% of workers
8% 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 Wellsville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wellsville, 2013 → 2023: 250 → 162. 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 Wellsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Wellsville, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wellsville is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Wellsville 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 473 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). 8.5% of Wellsville households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wellsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Wellsville is 2,400th among 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,398 | Woodbine GA | 1,084 | $46K | 10.5% | 2.6% | 8% | D |
| 2,399 | Leoti KS | 1,397 | $74K | 18.3% | 0.6% | 43% | D |
| 2,400 | Wellsville MO | 1,012 | $61K | 14.4% | 6.2% | 8% | D |
| 2,401 | Williamsport OH | 1,027 | $57K | 20.7% | 4.8% | 1% | D |
| 2,402 | Hawley PA | 1,212 | $48K | 12.2% | 3.1% | 4% | 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 Wellsville, 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 Wellsville: questions
What is the median household income in Wellsville?
$61,429 (±$19,194) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wellsville?
14.4%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wellsville?
34 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wellsville work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Montgomery City (10%, 8 mi), Mexico (8%, 17 mi), Jefferson City (4%, 48 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wellsville walkable?
Wellsville is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wellsville 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 Wellsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wellsville
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.