Photo: Pastlizard · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: Dardanelle has 1.7 jobs per working resident, and 2,759 people come in to work
3,058 jobs are based in Dardanelle for 1,748 working residents. For jobs and income Dardanelle is better than 36% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (B−). Measured by household income, Dardanelle is behind 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Dardanelle
Jobs in Dardanelle have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Dardanelle went from 1,299 in 2013 to 3,058 in 2023, +135%. The jobs ↓
Dardanelle makes and builds things
55% of the jobs based in Dardanelle are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Dardanelle residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 39%. The jobs ↓
Dardanelle is where the jobs are
Dardanelle has 3,058 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Dardanelle and Russellville trade workers both ways
Russellville is the top workplace for Dardanelle residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Dardanelle come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer than half of Dardanelle workers earn over $40,000 a year
40% of Dardanelle’s 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 ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The four measures behind Dardanelle’s grade
Unemployment holds Dardanelle’s grade up (3.5%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($51,040, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dardanelle could be anywhere from C− to B.
Goods jobs make up 55% of work in Dardanelle
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dardanelle, 2013 → 2023: 1,299 → 3,058. 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 Dardanelle’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Dardanelle by day
On a workday 1,449 residents head out to work and 299 work right here.
About 5,800 people are in Dardanelle on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Where Dardanelle’s workforce comes from
Where Dardanelle clocks in
33% 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 commute of about 19 minutes in Dardanelle
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dardanelle workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,005 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.
How far Dardanelle goes to work
About 25% 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.
Dardanelle is a driving town
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.0% across Arkansas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,072 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). 7.5% of Dardanelle households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dardanelle’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Dardanelle is 2,563rd of 3,862 U.S. towns of 3,200 to 6,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 169 | Johnson AR | 3,684 | $96K | 2.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 210 | Austin AR | 4,017 | $114K | 1.6% | 1.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 410 | Highfill AR | 3,676 | $93K | 4.2% | 0.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,561 | Manchester IA | 5,357 | $61K | 11.4% | 3.5% | 37% | C+ |
| 2,562 | Cortez FL | 5,205 | $80K | 10.5% | 11.0% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,563 | Dardanelle AR | 4,521 | $51K | 11.1% | 3.5% | 17% | C+ |
| 2,564 | Mount Morris Township IL | 3,639 | $50K | 12.6% | 2.8% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,565 | Attica Township MI | 4,729 | $75K | 13.0% | 5.6% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,862 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Dardanelle, 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 Dardanelle: questions
What is the median household income in Dardanelle?
$51,040 (±$8,499) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dardanelle?
11.1%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dardanelle?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dardanelle work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Russellville (33%, 4 mi), Little Rock (5%, 57 mi), Corinth (3%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dardanelle walkable?
Dardanelle is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dardanelle without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dardanelle, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dardanelle
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.