Photo: Dr. Blazer · CC BY-SA 4.0Dyess has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Hardly any stay in Dyess for work; outside it, Jonesboro is the main destination (13%, 31 miles). There are 4 jobs in Dyess, and 108 of its residents work somewhere. 1% of workers work from home, next to 9% for Arkansas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Dyess by day and by night
On a workday 107 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 210 people are in Dyess on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 Dyess goes to work
Where Dyess clocks in
13% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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.
In Dyess, 75% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dyess, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 4. 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 Dyess’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Dyess
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dyess workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 103 commuters (the 1% 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.
Half of Dyess commutes less than 30 miles
About 17% 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 Dyess: questions
What is the poverty rate in Dyess?
29.1%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dyess?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dyess work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jonesboro (13%, 31 mi), Memphis (6%, 36 mi), Wilson (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Dyess without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dyess, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dyess
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.