Menifee High School Gymnasium · Photo: Cid.williams · CC BY-SA 3.0Menifee has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
The trip to work takes 66 minutes on average; Arkansas averages 23, the U.S. 26. There are 29 jobs in Menifee; 86 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Menifee itself; outside it, Morrilton draws the most (21%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily commute in and out of Menifee
On a workday 86 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 29 people come in from elsewhere.
About 260 people are in Menifee on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
Where Menifee goes to work
Where Menifee clocks in
17% of workers
9% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Menifee
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Menifee, 2013 → 2023: 9 → 29. 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 Menifee’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 66 minutes from Menifee
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 21.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Menifee workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 210 commuters (the 14% 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 commute from Menifee, by distance
About 27% 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 Menifee: questions
What is the median household income in Menifee?
$64,315 (±$55,207) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Menifee?
12.0%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Menifee?
66 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Menifee work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Morrilton (21%, 11 mi), Little Rock (17%, 31 mi), Conway (9%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Menifee 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 Menifee, from the people who make the trip.
More of Menifee
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.