Most of Pencil Bluff commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
For 0% of workers, the job is at home (Arkansas 9%). 3 jobs are based in Pencil Bluff, and 20 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Pencil Bluff itself; outside it, Mount Ida draws the most (20%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Pencil Bluff
On a workday 20 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 34 people are in Pencil Bluff on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
The towns that employ Pencil Bluff’s residents
Where Pencil Bluff clocks in
20% of workers
15% of workers
10% 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.
What Pencil Bluff’s employers do
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 Pencil Bluff’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Pencil Bluff
of Pencil Bluff workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 51 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.
How far it is to work from Pencil Bluff
About 50% 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 Pencil Bluff: questions
What is the poverty rate in Pencil Bluff?
0.0%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Pencil Bluff work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Ida (20%, 8 mi), Little Rock (15%, 79 mi), Arkadelphia (10%, 52 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pencil Bluff 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 Pencil Bluff, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pencil Bluff
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.