Will Reed Farm House · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Alleene has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
For 23% of workers, the job is at home, next to 9% for Arkansas as a whole. There are 2 jobs in Alleene, against 40 working residents. Hardly any work in Alleene itself; outside it, Ashdown draws the most (15%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Alleene on a workday
On a workday 40 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 58 people are in Alleene 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Alleene work
Where Alleene clocks in
15% of workers
13% of workers
10% 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.
In Alleene, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Alleene’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Alleene
of Alleene workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 50 commuters (the 23% who work from home are left out). Across Arkansas: 87% 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 it is to work from Alleene
About 36% 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 Alleene: questions
What is the poverty rate in Alleene?
27.1%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Alleene work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ashdown (15%, 10 mi), Little Rock (13%, 127 mi), Foreman (10%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Alleene 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 Alleene, from the people who make the trip.
More of Alleene
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.