How Mayflower works: jobs, income and commuting
A typical one-way commute lasts 24 minutes, where Arkansas has 23 and the U.S. 26. Jobs and income earn Mayflower B; getting around on foot earns it B. Only 6% work in Mayflower; the top destination outside it is Little Rock (25%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Mayflower: the gist
Mayflower’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mayflower is better than 64% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Mayflower’s grade up (5.6%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (4.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mayflower could be anywhere from C to A.
The kinds of work in Mayflower
925 jobs are based in Mayflower.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mayflower, 2013 → 2023: 984 → 925. 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 Mayflower’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 824 residents head out to work, 48 work right here, and 877 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 (1.06 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 the trip to work from Mayflower ends
Where Mayflower clocks in
25% of workers
25% of workers
8% 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.
Getting to work from Mayflower takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mayflower workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,258 commuters (the 4% 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.
Half of Mayflower commutes less than 15 miles
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 Mayflower, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mayflower is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.0% across Arkansas, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,308 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). 4.4% of Mayflower households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mayflower’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200, Mayflower ranks 1,477th of 4,995 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 134 | Avilla AR | 1,833 | $106K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 224 | Goshen AR | 2,405 | $150K | 1.7% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 335 | Salem AR | 2,642 | $74K | 2.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,475 | Cherry Ridge Township PA | 1,902 | $80K | 6.7% | 2.3% | 2% | B |
| 1,476 | Merrill WI | 2,856 | $81K | 8.6% | 0.9% | 3% | B |
| 1,477 | Mayflower AR | 2,372 | $76K | 5.6% | 4.4% | 6% | B |
| 1,478 | Ravenel SC | 2,728 | $83K | 19.0% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,479 | Sharon Township IL | 2,814 | $107K | 15.1% | 0.0% | 0% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | 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 Mayflower, 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 Mayflower: questions
What is the median household income in Mayflower?
$75,682 (±$14,012) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mayflower?
5.6%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mayflower?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mayflower work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Little Rock (25%, 17 mi), Conway (25%, 8 mi), North Little Rock (8%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mayflower walkable?
Mayflower is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mayflower without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mayflower, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mayflower
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.