Photo: gregwest98 · CC BY-SA 2.0Most of Reader commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Arkansas as a whole has 9%. There are 1 jobs in Reader, and 17 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Reader; the top destination outside it is Camden (18%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Reader on a workday afternoon
On a workday 17 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 27 people are in Reader on a workday afternoon, 37% 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 Reader’s working residents head each day
Where Reader clocks in
12% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Reader
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 Reader’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Reader
of Reader workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 31 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Reader
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 Reader: questions
What is the poverty rate in Reader?
0.0%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Reader work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Camden (18%, 19 mi), Hope (12%, 29 mi), Emmet (6%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Reader 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 Reader, from the people who make the trip.
More of Reader
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.