Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Paragould draws about half of Delaplaine’s working residents
Hardly any work in Delaplaine; the top destination outside it is Paragould (50%, 17 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 29 minutes, next to 23 for Arkansas and 26 for the U.S. Delaplaine has 7 jobs, and 22 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Delaplaine for work, and who comes in
On a workday 22 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.
About 52 people are in Delaplaine on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.32 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Delaplaine goes to work
Where Delaplaine clocks in
50% of workers
9% of workers
9% 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.
100% of the jobs in Delaplaine pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delaplaine, 2014 → 2024: 22 → 7. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Delaplaine’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes to work from Delaplaine
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Delaplaine workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 34 commuters (the 11% 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.
Miles to work from Delaplaine
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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Delaplaine: questions
What is the poverty rate in Delaplaine?
42.4%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delaplaine?
29 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Delaplaine work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Delaplaine without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Delaplaine, from the people who make the trip.
More of Delaplaine
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.