Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Marmaduke trail those of 86% of U.S. towns
Marmaduke grades D for jobs and income and D for walkability. Below the poverty line: 23.7% of residents (Arkansas 16.0%). For 1% of workers, the job is at home, next to 9% for Arkansas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Marmaduke, in a few figures
Marmaduke and Paragould trade workers both ways
Paragould is the top workplace for Marmaduke residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Marmaduke come from (25% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Marmaduke makes and builds things
56% of the jobs based in Marmaduke are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Marmaduke residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 29%. The jobs ↓
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 413 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Marmaduke’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Marmaduke is better than 10% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Marmaduke’s grade up (ahead of 36% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (0.9%) is left out: Marmaduke’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Marmaduke could be anywhere from D− to B−.
33% of working residents work in Paragould
Where Marmaduke clocks in
33% of workers
12% of workers
3% 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.
Marmaduke makes things: 56% of its jobs are in goods
335 jobs are based in Marmaduke.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marmaduke, 2013 → 2023: 279 → 335. 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 Marmaduke’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Marmaduke
On a workday 380 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 302 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 (0.81 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.
Each way, about 21 minutes from Marmaduke
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marmaduke workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 503 commuters (the 1% 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 it is to work from Marmaduke
About 19% 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.
Most of Marmaduke commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marmaduke is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Marmaduke near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 507 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). 3.2% of Marmaduke households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Marmaduke’s commuters take a bus or train.
Marmaduke next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 4,006th of 4,866 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Roland AR | 1,147 | $175K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 429 | Wooster AR | 1,150 | $112K | 5.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,332 | Redfield AR | 1,492 | $72K | 8.3% | 3.0% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,004 | Lake Holcombe WI | 1,010 | $63K | 16.4% | 3.7% | 2% | D |
| 4,005 | Topaz Ranch Estates NV | 1,621 | $58K | 12.7% | 6.0% | 5% | D |
| 4,006 | Marmaduke AR | 1,254 | $51K | 23.7% | 0.9% | 8% | D |
| 4,007 | Mineral Springs AR | 1,036 | $52K | 16.1% | 3.4% | 6% | D |
| 4,008 | Gordon NE | 1,417 | $59K | 14.1% | 2.4% | 40% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Marmaduke, 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 Marmaduke: questions
What is the median household income in Marmaduke?
$51,250 (±$15,608) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marmaduke?
23.7%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marmaduke?
21 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marmaduke work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Paragould (33%, 12 mi), Jonesboro (12%, 30 mi), Pocahontas (3%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Marmaduke walkable?
Marmaduke is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marmaduke without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marmaduke, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marmaduke
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.