Photo: Eagle1938 · CC BY-SA 4.0Vilonia has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
There are 790 jobs in Vilonia, and 1,961 of its residents work somewhere. Vilonia grades B− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. About one in ten work in Vilonia; the top destination outside it is Conway (24%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Vilonia apart on work
Jobs & income in Vilonia: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Vilonia is better than 48% of U.S. towns, #35 of 123 in Arkansas. Household income holds Vilonia’s grade up ($81,815, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.0%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Vilonia could be anywhere from D to A.
The trip to work from Vilonia: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vilonia workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,747 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.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Vilonia by day and by night
On a workday 1,799 residents head out to work, 162 work right here, and 628 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,700 people are in Vilonia on a workday afternoon, 24% 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 Vilonia work
Where Vilonia clocks in
24% of workers
21% of workers
8% 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.
The kinds of work in Vilonia
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vilonia, 2013 → 2023: 889 → 790. 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 Vilonia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Vilonia to work
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.
Most of Vilonia commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Vilonia is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns, #97 of 123 in Arkansas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 1,905 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). 1.9% of Vilonia households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Vilonia’s commuters take a bus or train.
Vilonia is 2,145th of 3,840 U.S. towns of 3,400 to 6,600 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 186 | Johnson AR | 3,684 | $96K | 2.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 230 | Austin AR | 4,017 | $114K | 1.6% | 1.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 443 | Highfill AR | 3,676 | $93K | 4.2% | 0.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,143 | South Lakes AK | 6,180 | $98K | 7.6% | 5.2% | — | B− |
| 2,144 | Clarcona FL | 3,850 | $42K | 14.8% | 2.5% | <1% | B− |
| 2,145 | Vilonia AR | 4,894 | $82K | 16.0% | 3.8% | 8% | B− |
| 2,146 | Sullivan IL | 4,310 | $63K | 10.3% | 2.4% | 30% | B− |
| 2,147 | Tipton IN | 5,263 | $60K | 17.7% | 1.7% | 22% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,840 | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Vilonia, 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 Vilonia: questions
What is the median household income in Vilonia?
$81,815 (±$34,564) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vilonia?
16.0%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vilonia?
34 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vilonia work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Conway (24%, 14 mi), Little Rock (21%, 26 mi), North Little Rock (8%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Vilonia walkable?
Vilonia is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Vilonia without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vilonia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vilonia
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.