Photo: Ben Shahn · Public domainZinc has 2.4 jobs for every working resident: 70 people commute in to work
71 jobs are based in Zinc, against 30 working residents. Only 3% work in Zinc itself; outside it, Harrison draws the most (43%, 12 miles). Home is the office for 6% of workers, where Arkansas as a whole has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Zinc, and who commutes in
On a workday 29 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 130 people are in Zinc on a workday afternoon, 47% more 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.
The towns that send workers to Zinc
Where Zinc clocks in
43% 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 Zinc
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Zinc, 2013 → 2023: 8 → 71. 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 Zinc’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Zinc
of Zinc workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 15 commuters (the 6% 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 Zinc works
About 20% 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 Zinc: questions
What is the poverty rate in Zinc?
46.7%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Zinc work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrison (43%, 12 mi), Bergman (10%, 6 mi), Green Forest (3%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Zinc without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Zinc, from the people who make the trip.
More of Zinc
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.