Photo: Chris Litherland · CC BY-SA 3.0Sheridan has 1.3 jobs for every working resident: 2,282 people commute in to work
Jobs & income C−: better than 22% of U.S. towns on income, poverty, unemployment and job access · #63 of 123 in Arkansas.
Walkability C+: more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns · #59 of 123 in Arkansas.
Household incomes here are lower than in 70% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 27 minutes each way (Arkansas 23, U.S. 26). About one in four work in Sheridan; the top destination outside it is Little Rock (23%, 28 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Sheridan, in brief
Sheridan’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Sheridan is Little Rock, 28 miles away as the crow flies. 23% of working residents (507) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Sheridan makes and builds things
38% of the jobs based in Sheridan are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Sheridan residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 24%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
What’s behind Sheridan’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Sheridan is better than 22% of U.S. towns, #63 of 123 in Arkansas. Job access by car holds Sheridan’s grade up (ahead of 50% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (19.9%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sheridan could be anywhere from D to B−.
Half of Sheridan commutes less than 28 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 16% 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.
Sheridan makes things: 38% of its jobs are in goods
2,808 jobs are based in Sheridan. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sheridan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sheridan, 2013 → 2023: 2,634 → 2,808. 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.
Sheridan fills up on a workday
On a workday 1,684 residents head out to work, 526 work right here, and 2,282 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,000 people are in Sheridan on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.27 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.
23% of working residents work in Little Rock
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Sheridan clocks in
23% of workers
7% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 27 minutes each way, longer than most of Arkansas
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sheridan workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,626 commuters (the 8% who work from home are left out). Across Arkansas: 87% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Most trips from Sheridan start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sheridan is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns, #59 of 123 in Arkansas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.3% 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 1,776 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). 5.7% of Sheridan households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sheridan’s commuters take a bus or train.
Sheridan is 2,851st of 3,541 U.S. towns of 3,800 to 7,300 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Sheridan, the top three, the last and three more from Arkansas.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 225 | Austin AR | 4,017 | $114K | 1.6% | 1.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 458 | Cave Springs AR | 6,701 | $146K | 1.8% | 4.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 741 | Haskell AR | 4,362 | $86K | 7.6% | 0.8% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,849 | Douglas WY | 6,469 | $83K | 15.6% | 5.8% | 46% | C− |
| 2,850 | Farley KY | 4,458 | $47K | 30.8% | 3.9% | 4% | C− |
| 2,851 | Sheridan AR | 5,406 | $62K | 19.9% | 5.9% | 24% | C− |
| 2,852 | Logan OH | 7,164 | $58K | 27.3% | 3.6% | 30% | C− |
| 2,853 | Center Township OH | 5,663 | $46K | 23.0% | 4.2% | 15% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,541 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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.
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 Sheridan: questions
What is the median household income in Sheridan?
$62,453 (±$6,461) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sheridan?
19.9%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sheridan?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sheridan work?
24% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Little Rock (23%, 28 mi), Pine Bluff (7%, 26 mi), North Little Rock (5%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sheridan walkable?
Sheridan is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sheridan without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sheridan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sheridan
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.