Haggard Ford Swinging Bridge · Photo: Peggy estes · CC BY-SA 3.0Bergman draws 269 commuters a day, with 2.0 jobs for every working resident
Only 7% stay in Bergman for work; outside it, Harrison is the main destination (35%, 8 miles). 279 jobs are based in Bergman for 139 working residents. A typical one-way commute lasts 27 minutes, where Arkansas has 23 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bergman on a workday afternoon
On a workday 129 residents head out to work and 10 work right here.
About 560 people are in Bergman on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 2023, primary jobs.
The daily trip into Bergman
Where Bergman clocks in
35% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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.
What Bergman’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bergman, 2013 → 2023: 97 → 279. 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 Bergman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 27 minutes each way for Bergman’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bergman workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 238 commuters (the 9% 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 distance from Bergman to work
About 33% 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 Bergman: questions
What is the median household income in Bergman?
$61,042 (±$16,752) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bergman?
13.0%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bergman?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bergman work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrison (35%, 8 mi), Bentonville (4%, 68 mi), Fayetteville (4%, 67 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bergman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bergman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bergman
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.