Henry and Cornelia Ford Farm · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0LaGrange has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
For 0% of workers, the job is at home; Arkansas has 9%. Employers in LaGrange report 2 jobs; 5 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in LaGrange itself; outside it, Marked Tree draws the most (20%, 63 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
LaGrange on a workday afternoon
On a workday 5 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
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 LaGrange goes to work
Where LaGrange clocks in
20% of workers
20% of workers
20% 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 LaGrange: what the 2 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in LaGrange, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 2. 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 LaGrange’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in LaGrange
of LaGrange workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 20 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 LaGrange’s workers travel
About 100% 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: 5% of LaGrange workers work outside Arkansas. The job records count 20% 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 LaGrange: questions
What is the median household income in LaGrange?
$41,313 (±$16,793) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in LaGrange?
7.5%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in LaGrange work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marked Tree (20%, 63 mi), Pine Bluff (20%, 79 mi), Jonesboro (20%, 80 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around LaGrange 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 LaGrange, from the people who make the trip.
More of LaGrange
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.