Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Leachville works elsewhere
For jobs and income Leachville is better than 4% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (B−). Employers in Leachville report 377 jobs for 810 working residents. Measured by household income, Leachville is behind 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Leachville, in brief
Where Leachville’s Jobs & income grade comes from
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Leachville’s grade.
Unemployment (0.7%) is left out: Leachville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Leachville could be anywhere from D− to C−.
The distance from Leachville to work
About 23% 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.
In and out of Leachville on a workday
On a workday 745 residents head out to work, 65 work right here, and 312 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Leachville on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
12% of working residents work in Jonesboro
Where Leachville clocks in
12% of workers
9% of workers
9% 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 Leachville: what the 377 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Leachville, 2013 → 2023: 329 → 377. 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 Leachville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Leachville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Leachville workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 775 commuters (the 3% 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.
In Leachville, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.0% across Arkansas, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 795 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.0% of Leachville households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Leachville’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500, and where Leachville sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 136 | Avilla AR | 1,833 | $106K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 220 | Goshen AR | 2,405 | $150K | 1.7% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,003 | West Fork AR | 2,373 | $78K | 3.1% | 3.5% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,295 | Seven Points TX | 1,530 | $40K | 26.6% | 10.0% | 3% | D− |
| 5,296 | Johnson VT | 1,326 | $49K | 17.5% | 14.4% | 2% | D− |
| 5,297 | Leachville AR | 1,883 | $51K | 27.2% | 0.7% | 8% | D− |
| 5,298 | East Ellijay GA | 1,816 | $29K | 26.8% | 2.5% | 8% | D− |
| 5,299 | Dawson Springs KY | 2,231 | $33K | 30.5% | 11.3% | 17% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Leachville, the top three, the last and three more from Arkansas.
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 Leachville: questions
What is the median household income in Leachville?
$51,406 (±$27,643) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Leachville?
27.2%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Leachville?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Leachville work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jonesboro (12%, 25 mi), Manila (9%, 5 mi), Blytheville (9%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Leachville walkable?
Leachville is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Leachville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Leachville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Leachville
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.