Collums-Baker House · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Bee Branch has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
26 jobs are based in Bee Branch, against 93 working residents. Hardly any work in Bee Branch itself; outside it, Conway draws the most (15%, 27 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, against 9% across Arkansas.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bee Branch on a workday afternoon
On a workday 93 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 26 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Bee Branch on a workday afternoon, 34% 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 Bee Branch work
Where Bee Branch clocks in
15% 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 Bee Branch
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bee Branch, 2013 → 2023: 50 → 26. 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 Bee Branch’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Bee Branch
of Bee Branch workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 106 commuters (the 0% 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 Bee Branch goes to work
About 22% 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 Bee Branch: questions
What is the median household income in Bee Branch?
$76,205 (±$1,132) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bee Branch?
0.0%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Bee Branch work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Conway (15%, 27 mi), Clinton (13%, 9 mi), Damascus (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bee Branch 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 Bee Branch, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bee Branch
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.