Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson Rd-Fourth Street Segment · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Atkins have lower incomes than those in 71% of U.S. towns
About one in ten work in Atkins itself; outside it, Russellville draws the most (32%, 11 miles). Below the poverty line: 9.7% of residents, next to 16.0% across Arkansas. Jobs and income earn Atkins C+; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Atkins: the gist
Atkins and Russellville trade workers both ways
Russellville is the top workplace for Atkins residents (32%) and also where the most people who work in Atkins come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer than half of Atkins workers earn over $40,000 a year
43% of Atkins’ working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 15% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Atkins makes and builds things
35% of the jobs based in Atkins are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Atkins residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 27%. The jobs ↓
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.
Why Atkins gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Atkins is better than 43% of U.S. towns, #44 of 123 in Arkansas. Unemployment holds Atkins’ grade up (3.2%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($61,908, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Atkins could be anywhere from D to B+.
The places Atkins commutes to
Where Atkins clocks in
32% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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.
A place that makes things: 35% of Atkins’ jobs are in goods
909 jobs are based in Atkins.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Atkins, 2013 → 2023: 924 → 909. 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 Atkins’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Atkins on a workday afternoon
On a workday 985 residents head out to work, 118 work right here, and 791 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.82 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 24 minutes to work from Atkins
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Atkins workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,118 commuters (the 3% 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.
The commute from Atkins, by distance
About 23% 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.
Atkins is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Atkins is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns, #99 of 123 in Arkansas. Both inputs place Atkins 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 1,157 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). 2.5% of Atkins households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Atkins’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,882 U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900, Atkins comes 2,709th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 168 | Johnson AR | 3,684 | $96K | 2.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 252 | Goshen AR | 2,405 | $150K | 1.7% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 369 | Salem AR | 2,642 | $74K | 2.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,707 | Winslow Township PA | 2,487 | $68K | 17.6% | 0.7% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,708 | Jenner Township PA | 3,570 | $59K | 13.6% | 1.6% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,709 | Atkins AR | 2,868 | $62K | 9.7% | 3.2% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,710 | Clarion IA | 2,758 | $65K | 10.5% | 2.3% | 39% | C+ |
| 2,711 | Hodgenville KY | 3,378 | $58K | 19.1% | 0.0% | 7% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Atkins, the top three, the last and three more from Arkansas.
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 Atkins: questions
What is the median household income in Atkins?
$61,908 (±$9,503) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Atkins?
9.7%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Atkins?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Atkins work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Russellville (32%, 11 mi), Little Rock (7%, 49 mi), Conway (5%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Atkins walkable?
Atkins is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Atkins without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Atkins, from the people who make the trip.
More of Atkins
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.