Tumbling Shoals has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
For 0% of workers, the job is at home, against 9% across Arkansas. There are 48 jobs in Tumbling Shoals for 275 working residents. Only 1% work in Tumbling Shoals; the top destination outside it is Heber Springs (15%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Tumbling Shoals stands out on work
Tumbling Shoals is a place people come home to
There are 48 jobs based in Tumbling Shoals, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Tumbling Shoals has about 460 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Tumbling Shoals and Heber Springs trade workers both ways
Heber Springs is the top workplace for Tumbling Shoals residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Tumbling Shoals come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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; with 275 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How a workday changes Tumbling Shoals
On a workday 272 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 45 people come in from elsewhere.
About 460 people are in Tumbling Shoals on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 the trip to work from Tumbling Shoals ends
Where Tumbling Shoals 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.
Miles to work from Tumbling Shoals
About 30% 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.
Tumbling Shoals makes things: 40% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tumbling Shoals, 2013 → 2023: 51 → 48. 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 Tumbling Shoals’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 26 minutes from Tumbling Shoals
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tumbling Shoals workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 266 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.
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 Tumbling Shoals: questions
What is the median household income in Tumbling Shoals?
$53,512 (±$38,874) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tumbling Shoals?
4.1%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tumbling Shoals?
26 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tumbling Shoals work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Heber Springs (15%, 5 mi), Greers Ferry (7%, 11 mi), Searcy (6%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Tumbling Shoals 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 Tumbling Shoals, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tumbling Shoals
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.