Photo: Matthew N from Oxford, MS, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Household incomes in Baldwyn trail those of 94% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 21.8% of residents, against 18.9% across Mississippi. Baldwyn grades C− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. About one in ten work in Baldwyn itself; outside it, Tupelo draws the most (26%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Baldwyn stands out on work
Baldwyn trades workers with the towns around it
Baldwyn has about as many jobs (1,251) as working residents (1,377), but they are mostly different people: 1,251 residents leave for work each day while 1,125 people come in. Only 10% of the jobs in Baldwyn are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Baldwyn than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Baldwyn fell from 2,057 in 2013 to 1,251 in 2023, −39%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Baldwyn makes and builds things
43% of the jobs based in Baldwyn are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Baldwyn residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 34%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Baldwyn are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 26 across Mississippi. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Mississippi worker. Time on the road ↓
Fewer than half of Baldwyn workers earn over $40,000 a year
43% of Baldwyn’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 16% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Baldwyn
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Baldwyn is better than 16% of U.S. towns, #55 of 99 in Mississippi. Job access by car holds Baldwyn’s grade up (ahead of 44% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($43,841, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Baldwyn could be anywhere from D to C+.
A workday in Baldwyn: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,251 residents head out to work, 126 work right here, and 1,125 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 (0.91 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.
Making and building: 43% of jobs based in Baldwyn
1,251 jobs are based in Baldwyn.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Baldwyn, 2013 → 2023: 2,057 → 1,251. 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 Baldwyn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Baldwyn takes about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Baldwyn workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,208 commuters (the 2% 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.
Where Baldwyn goes to work
Where Baldwyn clocks in
26% of workers
7% 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.
How far Baldwyn goes to work
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.
For most of Baldwyn, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Baldwyn is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns, #82 of 101 in Mississippi. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 1.8% across Mississippi.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,232 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). 4.1% of Baldwyn households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Baldwyn’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,818th of 4,562: where Baldwyn ranks among U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 584 | Bridgetown MS | 3,195 | $139K | 1.0% | 5.8% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 933 | Gluckstadt MS | 3,500 | $124K | 5.3% | 5.4% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 996 | New Hope MS | 3,952 | $80K | 2.9% | 1.2% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,816 | Valencia NM | 2,406 | $55K | 29.4% | 7.8% | 1% | C− |
| 3,817 | Mount Morris MI | 3,086 | $49K | 22.7% | 8.3% | 3% | C− |
| 3,818 | Baldwyn MS | 3,104 | $44K | 21.8% | 5.0% | 9% | C− |
| 3,819 | Portage PA | 2,344 | $46K | 23.2% | 5.0% | 7% | C− |
| 3,820 | Altavista VA | 3,353 | $51K | 11.9% | 7.9% | 19% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,562 | 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 Baldwyn, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
How Baldwyn compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Guntown (3%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Baldwyn’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Baldwyn: questions
What is the median household income in Baldwyn?
$43,841 (±$3,534) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Baldwyn?
21.8%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Baldwyn?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Baldwyn work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tupelo (26%, 17 mi), Booneville (7%, 12 mi), Guntown (3%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Baldwyn walkable?
Baldwyn is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Baldwyn without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Baldwyn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Baldwyn
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.