Most of Wood Heights commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
3% of workers have no commute at all, where Missouri as a whole has 13%. There are 33 jobs in Wood Heights; 329 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Wood Heights for work; outside it, Kansas City is the main destination (22%, 26 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Wood Heights at work: what stands out
Wood Heights is a place people come home to
There are 33 jobs based in Wood Heights, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Wood Heights has about 450 people in it, 40% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Wood Heights’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Wood Heights is Kansas City, 26 miles away as the crow flies. 22% of working residents (74) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Wood Heights workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 24 across Missouri. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 329 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
In and out of Wood Heights on a workday
On a workday 326 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 30 people come in from elsewhere.
About 450 people are in Wood Heights on a workday afternoon, 40% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Near or far: the trip to work from Wood Heights
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.
About 32 minutes each way for Wood Heights’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wood Heights workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 394 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.
Where Wood Heights’ working residents head each day
Where Wood Heights clocks in
22% of workers
13% of workers
8% 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 Wood Heights
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wood Heights, 2014 → 2024: 12 → 33. 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 Wood Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
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 Wood Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Wood Heights?
$89,688 (±$19,625) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wood Heights?
6.4%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wood Heights?
32 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wood Heights work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kansas City (22%, 26 mi), Excelsior Springs (13%, 4 mi), Liberty (8%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Wood Heights without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wood Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wood Heights
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.