Land's End Plantation · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Wrightsville’s household incomes are lower than in 92% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Wrightsville is better than 24% of U.S. towns: C−. The poverty rate is 16.4%, against 16.0% across Arkansas. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Arkansas has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Wrightsville stands out on work
Nearly half of Wrightsville works in Little Rock
167 working residents, 49%, have their main job in Little Rock, 11 miles away. That’s far more as work in Wrightsville itself. The commute map ↓
Wrightsville is a place people come home to
There are 54 jobs based in Wrightsville, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Few Wrightsville workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 9% across Arkansas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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; with 338 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Wrightsville’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Wrightsville’s grade up (ahead of 65% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($45,417, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Wrightsville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Wrightsville could be anywhere from C− to B−.
49% of working residents work in Little Rock
Where Wrightsville clocks in
49% of workers
12% of workers
3% 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.
Wrightsville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 337 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 53 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Wrightsville on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.16 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
About 24 minutes each way, about the AR average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wrightsville workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 191 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.
The 54 jobs based in Wrightsville
54 jobs are based in Wrightsville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wrightsville, 2013 → 2023: 78 → 54. 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 Wrightsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Wrightsville commutes less than 13 miles
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.
For jobs and income, Wrightsville is 4,022nd of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 123 | Roland AR | 1,147 | $175K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 138 | Avilla AR | 1,833 | $106K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 634 | Wooster AR | 1,150 | $112K | 5.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,020 | Fort Denaud FL | 1,639 | $56K | 7.7% | 6.5% | 1% | C− |
| 4,021 | Chenoweth OR | 1,445 | $63K | 10.9% | 16.1% | 1% | C− |
| 4,022 | Wrightsville AR | 1,630 | $45K | 16.4% | 1.5% | <1% | C− |
| 4,023 | Venice IL | 1,450 | $32K | 43.3% | 26.0% | 6% | C− |
| 4,024 | Joseph OR | 1,188 | $54K | 5.7% | 1.4% | 20% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Wrightsville, 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 Wrightsville: questions
What is the median household income in Wrightsville?
$45,417 (±$9,396) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wrightsville?
16.4%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wrightsville?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wrightsville work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Little Rock (49%, 11 mi), North Little Rock (12%, 11 mi), Pine Bluff (3%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wrightsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wrightsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wrightsville
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.