Thomas E. Hess House · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Pleasant Grove has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Working from home is the commute for 28% of workers, against 9% across Arkansas. Employers in Pleasant Grove report 10 jobs; 66 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Pleasant Grove itself; outside it, Mountain View draws the most (27%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Pleasant Grove 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 130 people are in Pleasant Grove on a workday afternoon, 30% 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 the trip to work from Pleasant Grove ends
Where Pleasant Grove clocks in
27% of workers
6% 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 Pleasant Grove’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pleasant Grove, 2013 → 2023: 6 → 10. 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 Pleasant Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Pleasant Grove
of Pleasant Grove workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 44 commuters (the 28% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Pleasant Grove
About 29% 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 Pleasant Grove: questions
What is the poverty rate in Pleasant Grove?
21.5%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Pleasant Grove work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mountain View (27%, 12 mi), Batesville (15%, 16 mi), Little Rock (6%, 80 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pleasant Grove 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 Pleasant Grove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pleasant Grove
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.