Photo: Photolitherland · CC BY-SA 3.0Luxora has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
There are 28 jobs in Luxora; 251 of its residents have a job. Only 2% work in Luxora itself; outside it, Osceola draws the most (15%, 6 miles). 0% of workers have no commute at all (Arkansas 9%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Luxora: the gist
Luxora is a place people come home to
There are 28 jobs based in Luxora, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Luxora has about 630 people in it, 26% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Luxora are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 23 across Arkansas. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Arkansas worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Luxora workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 9% across Arkansas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 251 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The daily commute in and out of Luxora
On a workday 246 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 23 people come in from elsewhere.
About 630 people are in Luxora on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
Each way, about 18 minutes from Luxora
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Luxora workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 187 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.
Where Luxora goes to work
Where Luxora clocks in
15% of workers
7% 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.
The kinds of work in Luxora
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Luxora, 2013 → 2023: 39 → 28. 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 Luxora’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Luxora commutes
About 29% 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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Luxora: questions
What is the poverty rate in Luxora?
50.7%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Luxora?
18 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Luxora work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Osceola (15%, 6 mi), Jonesboro (7%, 42 mi), Memphis (7%, 45 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Luxora without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 37% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Luxora, from the people who make the trip.
More of Luxora
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.