Most of Agricola commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Agricola has 47 jobs, against 113 working residents. Hardly any stay in Agricola for work; outside it, Lucedale is the main destination (17%, 9 miles). Home is the office for 15% of workers; Mississippi has 6%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Agricola, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 112 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 46 people come in from elsewhere.
About 320 people are in Agricola on a workday afternoon, 17% 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 Agricola’s working residents head each day
Where Agricola clocks in
17% of workers
12% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Agricola
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Agricola, 2013 → 2023: 11 → 47. 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 Agricola’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Agricola, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Agricola workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 193 commuters (the 15% who work from home are left out). Across Mississippi: 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Agricola
About 31% 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 Agricola: questions
What is the median household income in Agricola?
$57,361 (±$57,181) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Agricola?
0.0%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Agricola?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Agricola work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lucedale (17%, 9 mi), Pascagoula (12%, 31 mi), Gulfport (4%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Agricola without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Agricola, from the people who make the trip.
More of Agricola
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.