Photo: Thomas R Machnitzki · CC BY 3.0With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Jericho works elsewhere
Home is the office for 18% of workers, next to 9% for Arkansas as a whole. Jericho has 1 jobs for 42 working residents. Hardly any work in Jericho itself; outside it, Memphis draws the most (33%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Jericho by day
On a workday 42 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 55 people are in Jericho on a workday afternoon, 43% 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 Jericho: the destinations
Where Jericho clocks in
33% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Jericho
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 Jericho’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Jericho
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jericho workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 52 commuters (the 17% 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.
The distance from Jericho to work
About 17% 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: 19% of Jericho workers work outside Arkansas. The job records count 33% 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 Jericho: questions
What is the median household income in Jericho?
$66,528 (±$18,987) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jericho?
3.4%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jericho?
29 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jericho work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Memphis (33%, 19 mi), West Memphis (17%, 10 mi), Trumann (5%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Jericho without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jericho, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jericho
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.