Photo: Brandonrush · CC BY-SA 4.0Perryville’s household incomes are lower than in 78% of U.S. towns
20.6% of residents live below the poverty line; Arkansas has 16.0%. For jobs and income Perryville is better than 10% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (C). About one in five work in Perryville itself; outside it, Little Rock draws the most (14%, 32 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Perryville apart on work
The figures behind Perryville’s Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Perryville’s grade.
Unemployment (1.3%) is left out: Perryville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Perryville could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Near or far: the trip to work from Perryville
About 20% 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.
How a workday changes Perryville
On a workday 337 residents head out to work, 70 work right here, and 487 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Perryville on a workday afternoon, 11% 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.
The places Perryville commutes to
Where Perryville clocks in
14% 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.
What work there is in Perryville: 557 jobs
557 jobs are based in Perryville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Perryville, 2013 → 2023: 596 → 557. 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 Perryville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Perryville’s commute takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Perryville workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 480 commuters (the 10% 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.
Few in Perryville walk, bike or ride to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.0% across Arkansas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 534 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). 10.2% of Perryville households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Perryville’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Perryville is 4,839th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 108 | Roland AR | 1,147 | $175K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 120 | Avilla AR | 1,833 | $106K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 538 | Wooster AR | 1,150 | $112K | 5.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,837 | Beggs OK | 1,188 | $46K | 31.2% | 1.5% | 4% | D |
| 4,838 | Patton PA | 1,656 | $48K | 21.8% | 4.8% | 5% | D |
| 4,839 | Perryville AR | 1,408 | $57K | 20.6% | 1.3% | 17% | D |
| 4,840 | New Sharon IA | 1,247 | $49K | 14.4% | 3.8% | 3% | D |
| 4,841 | Magnolia MS | 1,804 | $55K | 29.8% | 6.4% | 13% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Perryville, 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 Perryville: questions
What is the median household income in Perryville?
$57,400 (±$16,083) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Perryville?
20.6%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Perryville?
21 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Perryville work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Little Rock (14%, 32 mi), Conway (9%, 20 mi), Morrilton (8%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Perryville walkable?
Perryville is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Perryville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Perryville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Perryville
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.