Photo: Muscogee Red · CC BY-SA 4.0Work means Harrison for about half of Ponca’s working residents
There are 49 jobs in Ponca for 10 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 27% of workers, where Arkansas as a whole has 9%. Hardly any work in Ponca; the top destination outside it is Harrison (50%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Ponca on a workday
On a workday 10 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 49 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in Ponca on a workday afternoon, 53% more than live here.
4.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
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 people who work in Ponca live
Where Ponca clocks in
50% 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.
In Ponca, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ponca, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 49. 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 Ponca’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Ponca
of Ponca workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 45 commuters (the 27% 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.
The commute from Ponca, by distance
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 Ponca: questions
What is the poverty rate in Ponca?
0.0%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Ponca work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Ponca 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 Ponca, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ponca
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.