Photo: Brandonrush · CC BY-SA 3.0How Marvell works: jobs, income and commuting
At home: 0% of workers have no commute at all (Arkansas 9%). Only 7% work in Marvell itself; outside it, Helena-West Helena draws the most (15%, 17 miles). The average commute, 22 minutes each way, matches the Arkansas norm.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Marvell and work: the main findings
Marvell and Helena-West Helena trade workers both ways
Helena-West Helena is the top workplace for Marvell residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Marvell come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
39% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
The jobs in Marvell pay better than its residents’ jobs
60% of the jobs based in Marvell pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 40% of the jobs Marvell residents hold. 95% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Marvell. 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 240 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Out of Marvell to work: where people go
Where Marvell clocks in
15% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Marvell
About 39% 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.
Jobs in Marvell: what the 328 are
328 jobs are based in Marvell.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marvell, 2013 → 2023: 454 → 328. 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 Marvell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Marvell for work, and who comes in
On a workday 223 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 311 people come in from elsewhere.
About 810 people are in Marvell on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.37 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.
About 22 minutes each way, about the AR average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marvell workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 347 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.
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 Marvell: questions
What is the median household income in Marvell?
$51,875 (±$26,545) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marvell?
27.6%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marvell?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marvell work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Helena-West Helena (15%, 17 mi), Memphis (6%, 66 mi), Little Rock (4%, 83 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Marvell without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marvell, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marvell
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.