Old US 79, Kingsland Segment · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 4.0Kingsland has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Hardly any work in Kingsland; the top destination outside it is Fordyce (13%, 7 miles). 12 jobs are based in Kingsland; 149 of its residents have a job. Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 9% for Arkansas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Kingsland on a workday afternoon
On a workday 148 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 11 people come in from elsewhere.
About 200 people are in Kingsland on a workday afternoon, 41% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Kingsland goes to work
Where Kingsland clocks in
13% of workers
11% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Kingsland
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kingsland, 2014 → 2024: 35 → 12. 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 Kingsland’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Kingsland: about 22 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kingsland workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 212 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 Kingsland
About 24% 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.
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 Kingsland: questions
What is the median household income in Kingsland?
$27,500 (±$4,779) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kingsland?
34.7%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kingsland?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kingsland work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fordyce (13%, 7 mi), Pine Bluff (11%, 29 mi), Monticello (7%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Kingsland 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 Kingsland, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kingsland
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.