Most of Dennard commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Working residents average 67 minutes each way (Arkansas 23, U.S. 26). Employers in Dennard report 44 jobs, against 123 working residents. Only 2% work in Dennard itself; outside it, Clinton draws the most (18%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Dennard by day and by night
On a workday 121 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 42 people come in from elsewhere.
About 240 people are in Dennard on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Where Dennard’s working residents head each day
Where Dennard clocks in
8% 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.
Dennard works in goods: 93% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dennard, 2013 → 2023: 18 → 44. 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 Dennard’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 67 minutes each way, longer than most of Arkansas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 21.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dennard workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 128 commuters (the 6% 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 Dennard’s workers travel
About 29% 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 Dennard: questions
What is the poverty rate in Dennard?
18.7%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dennard?
67 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dennard work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clinton (18%, 13 mi), Conway (8%, 47 mi), Greenbrier (3%, 37 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Dennard 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 Dennard, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dennard
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.