Wynn-Price House · Photo: Walthallcharles · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Garland works elsewhere
Garland has 16 jobs for 75 working residents. Only 1% work in Garland itself; outside it, Texarkana draws the most (25%, 22 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers (Arkansas 9%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Garland, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 74 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 15 people come in from elsewhere.
About 120 people are in Garland 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.
Commuting out of Garland: the destinations
Where Garland clocks in
25% of workers
19% 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.
Jobs in Garland: what the 16 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Garland, 2013 → 2023: 10 → 16. 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 Garland’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Garland, about 34 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Garland workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 61 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.
How far Garland goes to work
About 29% 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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 10% of Garland workers work outside Arkansas. The job records count 34% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Garland: questions
What is the median household income in Garland?
$31,250 (±$10,193) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Garland?
30.9%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Garland?
34 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Garland work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Texarkana (25%, 22 mi), Texarkana (19%, 17 mi), De Queen (5%, 59 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Garland 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 Garland, from the people who make the trip.
More of Garland
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.