Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of El Paso commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in El Paso itself; outside it, Little Rock draws the most (20%, 31 miles). El Paso has 9 jobs for 96 working residents. Home is the office for 0% of workers; Arkansas has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through El Paso
On a workday 96 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 380 people are in El Paso on a workday afternoon, 19% 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 El Paso’s working residents head each day
Where El Paso clocks in
20% 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.
What El Paso’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in El Paso, 2013 → 2023: 55 → 9. 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 El Paso’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From El Paso, about 40 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of El Paso workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 212 commuters (the 0% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from El Paso
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 El Paso: questions
What is the median household income in El Paso?
$60,234 (±$42,062) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in El Paso?
0.0%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from El Paso?
40 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in El Paso work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Little Rock (20%, 31 mi), Searcy (10%, 21 mi), Beebe (9%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around El Paso without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from El Paso, from the people who make the trip.
More of El Paso
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.