White Oak has 2.3 jobs for every working resident: 72 people commute in to work
Only 3% stay in White Oak for work; outside it, Kennett is the main destination (13%, 6 miles). There are 73 jobs in White Oak for 32 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where Missouri as a whole has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in White Oak by day
On a workday 31 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 160 people are in White Oak on a workday afternoon, 34% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where White Oak’s workers come from
Where White Oak clocks in
13% of workers
9% 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.
White Oak is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in White Oak, 2014 → 2024: 12 → 73. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs White Oak’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in White Oak
of White Oak workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 43 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from White Oak
About 18% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 White Oak: questions
What is the poverty rate in White Oak?
29.4%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in White Oak work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kennett (13%, 6 mi), Caruthersville (9%, 23 mi), Malden (9%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around White Oak 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 White Oak, from the people who make the trip.
More of White Oak
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.