Spears House · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Twin Groves has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
20% of workers work from home, where Arkansas as a whole has 9%. 9 jobs are based in Twin Groves; 134 of its residents have a job. Only 4% work in Twin Groves itself; outside it, Conway draws the most (29%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Twin Groves by day
On a workday 129 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 200 people are in Twin Groves on a workday afternoon, 39% 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 people from Twin Groves work
Where Twin Groves clocks in
29% of workers
21% of workers
4% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Twin Groves
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Twin Groves, 2013 → 2023: 25 → 9. 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 Twin Groves’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes to work from Twin Groves
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Twin Groves workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 71 commuters (the 20% 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.
Where in the region Twin Groves works
About 19% 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 Twin Groves: questions
What is the median household income in Twin Groves?
$39,598 (±$6,940) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Twin Groves?
12.4%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Twin Groves?
29 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Twin Groves work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Conway (29%, 18 mi), Little Rock (21%, 42 mi), North Little Rock (4%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Twin Groves without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 27% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Twin Groves, from the people who make the trip.
More of Twin Groves
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.