Gillham City Jail · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Gillham has 4.2 jobs for every working resident: 266 people commute in to work
Employers in Gillham report 267 jobs, and 63 of its residents work somewhere. Only 2% stay in Gillham for work; outside it, De Queen is the main destination (38%, 9 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where Arkansas as a whole has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Gillham, and who commutes in
On a workday 62 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 360 people are in Gillham on a workday afternoon, 132% more 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 Gillham’s workforce comes from
Where Gillham clocks in
38% 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 Gillham: what the 267 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gillham, 2013 → 2023: 214 → 267. 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 Gillham’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Gillham, about 27 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gillham 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 Gillham goes to work
About 31% 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 Gillham: questions
What is the median household income in Gillham?
$55,833 (±$40,643) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gillham?
8.8%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gillham?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gillham work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are De Queen (38%, 9 mi), Bentonville (5%, 151 mi), Dierks (3%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Gillham 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 Gillham, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gillham
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.