Johnston, John H., Cotton Gin Historic District · Photo: Thomas R Machnitzki ([email protected]) · CC BY 3.0Household incomes in Wynne trail those of 94% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 24.7% of residents, next to 16.0% across Arkansas. Wynne grades D− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. About one in three work in Wynne itself; outside it, Forrest City draws the most (12%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Wynne, in a few figures
Wynne trades workers with the towns around it
Wynne has about as many jobs (3,134) as working residents (3,105), but they are mostly different people: 2,160 residents leave for work each day while 2,189 people come in. Only 30% of the jobs in Wynne are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer than half of Wynne workers earn over $40,000 a year
44% of Wynne’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 19% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Few Wynne workers work from home
Only 1% 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.
Wynne’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Wynne is better than 3% of U.S. towns, #108 of 123 in Arkansas. Job access by car holds Wynne’s grade up (ahead of 24% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (10.3%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Wynne could be anywhere from D− to D.
Wynne by day and by night
On a workday 2,160 residents head out to work, 945 work right here, and 2,189 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.01 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What the 3,134 jobs in Wynne are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wynne, 2013 → 2023: 3,860 → 3,134. 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 Wynne’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes to work from Wynne
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wynne workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,167 commuters (the 1% 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 people from Wynne work
Where Wynne clocks in
12% of workers
8% of workers
5% 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 commute from Wynne, by distance
About 23% 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.
Driving is how Wynne gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wynne is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns, #66 of 123 in Arkansas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.5% of 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 3,213 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 Wynne households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wynne’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Wynne compares with U.S. towns of 5,500 to 10,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 469 | Cave Springs AR | 6,701 | $146K | 1.8% | 4.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,274 | Tontitown AR | 8,046 | $86K | 4.7% | 6.0% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,382 | White Hall AR | 5,532 | $78K | 8.6% | 3.1% | 12% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,992 | Ripley TN | 7,499 | $37K | 30.7% | 8.2% | 27% | D− |
| 2,993 | Hernando FL | 9,299 | $43K | 21.1% | 10.6% | 3% | D− |
| 2,994 | Wynne AR | 7,884 | $43K | 24.7% | 10.3% | 30% | D− |
| 2,995 | DeFuniak Springs FL | 7,338 | $55K | 20.2% | 15.3% | 21% | D− |
| 2,996 | Ville Platte LA | 6,172 | $28K | 31.2% | 22.8% | 19% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,026 | 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 Wynne, 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 Wynne: questions
What is the median household income in Wynne?
$43,250 (±$6,307) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wynne?
24.7%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wynne?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wynne work?
30% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Forrest City (12%, 15 mi), Jonesboro (8%, 41 mi), Memphis (5%, 47 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wynne walkable?
Wynne is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wynne without a car?
0% 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 Wynne, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wynne
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.