Photo: StuttgartChamber · CC BY-SA 3.0Unemployment in Stuttgart (10.5%) is higher than in 95% of U.S. towns
Measured by household income, Stuttgart is behind 89% of U.S. towns. For jobs and income Stuttgart is better than 6% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (B+). More than half work in Stuttgart itself; outside it, Little Rock draws the most (8%, 49 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Stuttgart and work: the main findings
Stuttgart’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Stuttgart is Little Rock, 49 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (275) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Stuttgart makes and builds things
50% of the jobs based in Stuttgart are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Stuttgart residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 37%. The jobs ↓
Stuttgart is where the jobs are
Stuttgart has 6,165 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
The biggest group of Stuttgart’s workers comes from Pine Bluff
438 of the people who work in Stuttgart live in Pine Bluff, 33 miles away, more than from any other town. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Stuttgart are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 23 across Arkansas. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Arkansas worker. Time on the road ↓
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.
Where Stuttgart’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Job access by car holds Stuttgart’s grade up (ahead of 30% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Stuttgart could be anywhere from D− to D.
Near or far: the trip to work from Stuttgart
About 17% 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.
A place that makes things: 50% of Stuttgart’s jobs are in goods
6,165 jobs are based in Stuttgart.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stuttgart, 2013 → 2023: 6,995 → 6,165. 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 Stuttgart’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Stuttgart: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,369 residents head out to work, 2,072 work right here, and 4,093 people come in from elsewhere.
About 10,000 people are in Stuttgart on a workday afternoon, 36% more than live here.
1.8 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.
Who travels to work in Stuttgart, and from where
Where Stuttgart clocks in
8% of workers
3% of workers
2% 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.
From Stuttgart, about 18 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stuttgart workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,434 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.
Getting around Stuttgart: mostly by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,513 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). 11.1% of Stuttgart households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Stuttgart’s commuters take a bus or train.
Stuttgart next to U.S. towns of 5,300 to 10,200
| # | 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 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 468 | Cave Springs AR | 6,701 | $146K | 1.8% | 4.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,290 | Tontitown AR | 8,046 | $86K | 4.7% | 6.0% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,398 | White Hall AR | 5,532 | $78K | 8.6% | 3.1% | 12% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,983 | Weiser ID | 6,249 | $45K | 20.5% | 5.9% | 31% | D |
| 2,984 | Harrisburg Township IL | 9,656 | $46K | 25.9% | 8.8% | 27% | D |
| 2,985 | Stuttgart AR | 7,525 | $49K | 23.1% | 10.5% | 60% | D |
| 2,986 | Kewanee Township IL | 9,494 | $51K | 19.5% | 11.7% | 32% | D |
| 2,987 | Mena AR | 5,607 | $47K | 13.9% | 9.4% | 46% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,071 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Stuttgart, the top three, the last and three more from Arkansas.
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 Stuttgart: questions
What is the median household income in Stuttgart?
$49,399 (±$8,184) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stuttgart?
23.1%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stuttgart?
18 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stuttgart work?
60% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Little Rock (8%, 49 mi), Pine Bluff (3%, 33 mi), DeWitt (2%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Stuttgart walkable?
Stuttgart is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stuttgart without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stuttgart, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stuttgart
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.