Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 4.0DeWitt’s household incomes are lower than in 90% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 25.9% of residents, where Arkansas as a whole has 16.0%. The two grades for DeWitt are D− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. About two in five work in DeWitt itself; outside it, Stuttgart draws the most (14%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in DeWitt: the figures worth knowing
Commutes from DeWitt are quick
The average trip to work takes 14 minutes, against 23 across Arkansas. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Arkansas worker. Time on the road ↓
DeWitt makes and builds things
38% of the jobs based in DeWitt are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs DeWitt residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 31%. The jobs ↓
Fewer than half of DeWitt workers earn over $40,000 a year
44% of DeWitt’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.
The figures behind DeWitt’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, DeWitt is near the bottom of U.S. towns, #119 of 123 in Arkansas. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides DeWitt’s grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, DeWitt could be anywhere from D− to D.
Getting to work from DeWitt takes about 14 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of DeWitt workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 919 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.
In DeWitt, 38% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
1,599 jobs are based in DeWitt.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in DeWitt, 2013 → 2023: 1,427 → 1,599. 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 DeWitt’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves DeWitt for work, and who comes in
On a workday 708 residents head out to work, 508 work right here, and 1,091 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,200 people are in DeWitt on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.31 per resident).
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 people from DeWitt work
Where DeWitt clocks in
14% of workers
6% 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.
How far DeWitt goes to work
About 24% 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.
Most trips from DeWitt start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, DeWitt is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns, #64 of 123 in Arkansas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.5% 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 967 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). 12.2% of DeWitt households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of DeWitt’s commuters take a bus or train.
DeWitt next to U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 155 | Johnson AR | 3,684 | $96K | 2.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 234 | Goshen AR | 2,405 | $150K | 1.7% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 347 | Salem AR | 2,642 | $74K | 2.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,623 | Antlers OK | 2,186 | $36K | 26.2% | 8.6% | 32% | D− |
| 4,624 | Mountain City TN | 2,490 | $39K | 34.1% | 6.6% | 25% | D− |
| 4,625 | DeWitt AR | 2,791 | $48K | 25.9% | 14.2% | 42% | D− |
| 4,626 | Portola CA | 2,024 | $44K | 22.3% | 12.4% | 18% | D− |
| 4,627 | Bowling Green FL | 2,448 | $45K | 29.0% | 9.8% | 4% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,703 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 DeWitt, 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 DeWitt: questions
What is the median household income in DeWitt?
$47,798 (±$7,760) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in DeWitt?
25.9%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from DeWitt?
14 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in DeWitt work?
42% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Stuttgart (14%, 19 mi), Little Rock (6%, 66 mi), Gillett (3%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is DeWitt walkable?
DeWitt is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around DeWitt without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from DeWitt, from the people who make the trip.
More of DeWitt
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.