Photo: Colinhester · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Marked Tree are lower than in 92% of U.S. towns
About one in seven work in Marked Tree; the top destination outside it is Jonesboro (18%, 25 miles). Poverty touches 27.3% of residents, against 16.0% across Arkansas. The two grades for Marked Tree are D for jobs and income and A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Marked Tree, in brief
Marked Tree’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Marked Tree is Jonesboro, 25 miles away as the crow flies. 18% of working residents (146) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Marked Tree workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 23 across Arkansas. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 92 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 824 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Marked Tree’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Marked Tree is better than 11% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Marked Tree’s grade up (ahead of 48% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (7.2%) is left out: Marked Tree’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, Marked Tree could be anywhere from D to C−.
Near or far: the trip to work from Marked Tree
About 21% 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.
From Marked Tree, about 35 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marked Tree workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 799 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.
The daily commute in and out of Marked Tree
On a workday 687 residents head out to work, 137 work right here, and 685 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.00 per resident).
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 people from Marked Tree work
Where Marked Tree clocks in
18% of workers
11% 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.
What Marked Tree’s employers do
822 jobs are based in Marked Tree.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marked Tree, 2013 → 2023: 845 → 822. 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 Marked Tree’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Marked Tree
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marked Tree is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.0% across Arkansas, on an EPA index of 8.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 821 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). 12.8% of Marked Tree households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Marked Tree’s commuters take a bus or train.
Marked Tree is 4,784th of 5,641 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 3,000 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 138 | Avilla AR | 1,833 | $106K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 233 | Goshen AR | 2,405 | $150K | 1.7% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 356 | Salem AR | 2,642 | $74K | 2.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,782 | Tavernier FL | 2,413 | $50K | 17.6% | 4.7% | 8% | D |
| 4,783 | Citrus City TX | 2,395 | $39K | 24.4% | 11.0% | 0% | D |
| 4,784 | Marked Tree AR | 2,208 | $46K | 27.3% | 7.2% | 17% | D |
| 4,785 | Inglis FL | 1,640 | $57K | 14.7% | 3.8% | 11% | D |
| 4,786 | Memphis MO | 1,762 | $55K | 12.2% | 0.6% | 38% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,641 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Marked Tree, 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 Marked Tree: questions
What is the median household income in Marked Tree?
$45,656 (±$10,418) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marked Tree?
27.3%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marked Tree?
35 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marked Tree work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jonesboro (18%, 25 mi), Memphis (11%, 39 mi), West Memphis (4%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Marked Tree walkable?
Marked Tree is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marked Tree without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marked Tree, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marked Tree
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.