Cabin No. 1 · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0How Jones Mills works: jobs, income and commuting
145 jobs are based in Jones Mills, against 201 working residents. Hardly any work in Jones Mills itself; outside it, Little Rock draws the most (20%, 36 miles). The poverty rate is 7.8%; Arkansas has 16.0%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jones Mills at work: what stands out
Jones Mills’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Jones Mills is Little Rock, 37 miles away as the crow flies. 20% of working residents (40) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Jones Mills than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Jones Mills fell from 440 in 2014 to 145 in 2024, −67%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 201 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Half of Jones Mills commutes less than 23 miles
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Jones Mills works in goods: 45% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jones Mills, 2014 → 2024: 440 → 145. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Jones Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Jones Mills quiets down on a workday
On a workday 199 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 143 people come in from elsewhere.
About 170 people are in Jones Mills on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.72 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Jones Mills’ working residents head each day
Where Jones Mills clocks in
20% of workers
18% of workers
7% 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.
Working from home in Jones Mills
of Jones Mills workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 96 commuters (the 9% 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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Jones Mills: questions
What is the median household income in Jones Mills?
$53,750 (±$46,878) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jones Mills?
7.8%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Jones Mills work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Little Rock (20%, 36 mi), Hot Springs (18%, 9 mi), Malvern (7%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Jones Mills 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 Jones Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jones Mills
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.