Butterfield Overland Mail Route Lucian Wood Road Segment · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Cedarville commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Only 4% work in Cedarville itself; outside it, Fort Smith draws the most (38%, 16 miles). 210 jobs are based in Cedarville for 472 working residents. The two grades for Cedarville are C for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Cedarville apart
Income, poverty and work: Cedarville’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Cedarville is better than 29% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Cedarville’s grade up (9.5%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($59,740, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Cedarville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Cedarville could be anywhere from D to B.
Where Cedarville’s working residents head each day
Where Cedarville clocks in
38% of workers
20% of workers
3% 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.
Cedarville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 452 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 190 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Cedarville on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Cedarville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cedarville, 2013 → 2023: 33 → 210. 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 Cedarville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Cedarville: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cedarville workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 768 commuters (the 5% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Cedarville
About 16% 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.
Few in Cedarville walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cedarville is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.0% across Arkansas, on an EPA index of 3.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 807 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). 1.6% of Cedarville households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cedarville’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,690th of 6,308: where Cedarville ranks among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 116 | Roland AR | 1,147 | $175K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 129 | Avilla AR | 1,833 | $106K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 587 | Wooster AR | 1,150 | $112K | 5.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,688 | DeRuyter NY | 1,257 | $75K | 9.1% | 0.8% | 6% | C |
| 3,689 | Deltana AK | 1,997 | $92K | 12.8% | 5.0% | — | C |
| 3,690 | Cedarville AR | 1,458 | $60K | 9.5% | 1.7% | 4% | C |
| 3,691 | Tolar TX | 1,472 | $91K | 17.2% | 6.7% | <1% | C |
| 3,692 | Holland TX | 1,188 | $63K | 18.8% | 3.0% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Cedarville, 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 Cedarville: questions
What is the median household income in Cedarville?
$59,740 (±$22,389) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cedarville?
9.5%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cedarville?
26 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cedarville work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Smith (38%, 16 mi), Van Buren (20%, 9 mi), Little Rock (3%, 128 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cedarville walkable?
Cedarville is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cedarville 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 Cedarville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cedarville
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.