Prosperity Baptist Church · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Ivan has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where Arkansas as a whole has 9%. There are 6 jobs in Ivan for 48 working residents. Hardly any work in Ivan; the top destination outside it is Fordyce (38%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily commute in and out of Ivan
On a workday 48 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8 people are in Ivan on a workday afternoon, 84% 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 people from Ivan work
Where Ivan clocks in
38% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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.
Goods, not services: 83% of the jobs in Ivan
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ivan, 2013 → 2023: 17 → 6. 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 Ivan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Ivan
of Ivan workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 12 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Ivan
About 28% 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 Ivan: questions
What is the poverty rate in Ivan?
0.0%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Ivan work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fordyce (38%, 6 mi), Little Rock (6%, 57 mi), Malvern (4%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ivan 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 Ivan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ivan
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.