Pence-Carmichael Farm, Barn and Root Cellar · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Mount Vernon has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
25% of workers have no commute at all, where Arkansas as a whole has 9%. Employers in Mount Vernon report 10 jobs for 66 working residents. Hardly any work in Mount Vernon itself; outside it, Conway draws the most (24%, 22 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mount Vernon quiets down on a workday
On a workday 66 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere.
About 92 people are in Mount Vernon on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 Mount Vernon goes to work
Where Mount Vernon clocks in
24% of workers
18% of workers
5% 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.
The kinds of work in Mount Vernon
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Mount Vernon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 27 minutes each way, longer than most of Arkansas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Vernon workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 39 commuters (the 25% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Mount Vernon
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 Mount Vernon: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Vernon?
$39,286 (±$13,788) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Vernon?
7.7%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Vernon?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Vernon work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Conway (24%, 22 mi), Little Rock (18%, 37 mi), Jacksonville (5%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mount Vernon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Vernon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Vernon
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.