Eros School Building · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Everton works elsewhere
The trip to work takes 14 minutes on average (Arkansas 23, U.S. 26). Employers in Everton report 3 jobs, and 44 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Everton; the top destination outside it is Harrison (36%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Everton for work, and who comes in
On a workday 44 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 64 people are in Everton on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
Commuting out of Everton: the destinations
Where Everton clocks in
36% of workers
5% of workers
5% 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.
Everton is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Everton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Everton: about 14 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Everton workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 19 commuters (the 14% 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 many miles Everton commutes
About 34% 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 Everton: questions
What is the poverty rate in Everton?
21.5%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Everton?
14 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Everton work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrison (36%, 13 mi), Little Rock (5%, 104 mi), Fayetteville (5%, 70 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Everton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Everton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Everton
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.