Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0Foreman at work: jobs, income and the commute
The trip to work takes 27 minutes on average; Arkansas averages 23, the U.S. 26. Working from home is the commute for 1% of workers, next to 9% for Arkansas as a whole. About one in seven work in Foreman itself; outside it, Ashdown draws the most (10%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Foreman apart
Foreman makes and builds things
52% of the jobs based in Foreman are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Foreman residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 35%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Foreman pay better than its residents’ jobs
69% of the jobs based in Foreman pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 46% of the jobs Foreman residents hold. 88% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Foreman. 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; with 332 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
A place that makes things: 52% of Foreman’s jobs are in goods
389 jobs are based in Foreman.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Foreman, 2013 → 2023: 256 → 389. 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 Foreman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Foreman
On a workday 285 residents head out to work, 47 work right here, and 342 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.17 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 Foreman goes to work
Where Foreman clocks in
10% of workers
8% 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.
Time on the road from Foreman: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Foreman workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 355 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Foreman
About 23% 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 Foreman: questions
What is the median household income in Foreman?
$42,083 (±$10,465) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Foreman?
17.0%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Foreman?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Foreman work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ashdown (10%, 16 mi), Texarkana (8%, 26 mi), Texarkana (5%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Foreman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Foreman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Foreman
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.