Photo: Clinton Steeds from Los Angeles, USA · CC BY 2.0Household incomes in Berryville trail those of 95% of U.S. towns
About one in three work in Berryville itself; outside it, Green Forest draws the most (10%, 8 miles). Below the poverty line: 22.8% of residents; Arkansas has 16.0%. For jobs and income Berryville is better than 4% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Berryville
Berryville makes and builds things
55% of the jobs based in Berryville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Berryville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 42%. The jobs ↓
Berryville is where the jobs are
Berryville has 4,843 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Berryville are quick
The average trip to work takes 15 minutes, against 23 across Arkansas. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Arkansas worker. Time on the road ↓
Fewer than half of Berryville workers earn over $40,000 a year
43% of Berryville’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 14% earn $1,250 a month or less. 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.
How Berryville earns its Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Berryville’s grade up (ahead of 24% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($42,283, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Berryville could be anywhere from D− to C−.
55% of the jobs in Berryville make or build things
4,843 jobs are based in Berryville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Berryville, 2013 → 2023: 4,042 → 4,843. 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 Berryville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Berryville, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,593 residents head out to work, 974 work right here, and 3,869 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,100 people are in Berryville on a workday afternoon, 39% more than live here.
1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
A commute of about 15 minutes in Berryville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Berryville workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,083 commuters (the 2% 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.
Where Berryville’s workforce comes from
Where Berryville clocks in
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.
Where in the region Berryville works
About 18% 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.
Berryville is a driving town
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,131 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). 6.6% of Berryville households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Berryville’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 4,100 to 7,800, and where Berryville sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 439 | Cave Springs AR | 6,701 | $146K | 1.8% | 4.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 708 | Haskell AR | 4,362 | $86K | 7.6% | 0.8% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 854 | Elkins AR | 4,184 | $82K | 6.5% | 0.0% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,279 | Kinross Township MI | 6,790 | $61K | 21.3% | 11.4% | 15% | D− |
| 3,280 | Mojave CA | 5,173 | $56K | 25.5% | 17.8% | 20% | D− |
| 3,281 | Berryville AR | 5,813 | $42K | 22.8% | 8.5% | 38% | D− |
| 3,282 | Jonesboro LA | 4,252 | $42K | 35.1% | 6.4% | 23% | D− |
| 3,283 | Spindale NC | 4,180 | $41K | 21.8% | 12.6% | 6% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,375 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 4% | 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 Berryville, 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 Berryville: questions
What is the median household income in Berryville?
$42,283 (±$7,359) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Berryville?
22.8%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Berryville?
15 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Berryville work?
38% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Green Forest (10%, 8 mi), Eureka Springs (5%, 10 mi), Springdale (4%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Berryville walkable?
Berryville is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Berryville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Berryville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Berryville
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.