Morris House · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Pleasant Plains commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Pleasant Plains has 52 jobs, against 125 working residents. Only 2% stay in Pleasant Plains for work; outside it, Batesville is the main destination (28%, 15 miles). Home is the office for 2% of workers; Arkansas has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Pleasant Plains
On a workday 123 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 50 people come in from elsewhere.
About 280 people are in Pleasant Plains on a workday afternoon, 21% 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 Pleasant Plains’ residents
Where Pleasant Plains clocks in
Lines 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 Pleasant Plains
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pleasant Plains, 2013 → 2023: 153 → 52. 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 Plains’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 31 minutes to work from Pleasant Plains
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pleasant Plains workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 186 commuters (the 2% 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.
Half of Pleasant Plains commutes less than 16 miles
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 Pleasant Plains: questions
What is the median household income in Pleasant Plains?
$59,531 (±$12,860) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pleasant Plains?
11.4%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pleasant Plains?
31 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pleasant Plains work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Batesville (28%, 15 mi), Southside (10%, 11 mi), Searcy (6%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pleasant Plains without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pleasant Plains, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pleasant Plains
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.