Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Blue Springs has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
A typical one-way commute lasts 25 minutes, where Mississippi has 26 and the U.S. 26. There are 17 jobs in Blue Springs, against 188 working residents. Hardly any stay in Blue Springs for work; outside it, Tupelo is the main destination (28%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Blue Springs quiets down on a workday
On a workday 188 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 280 people are in Blue Springs on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Blue Springs goes to work
Where Blue Springs clocks in
28% of workers
18% 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.
Jobs in Blue Springs: what the 17 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blue Springs, 2014 → 2024: 104 → 17. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Blue Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Blue Springs spends getting to work: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blue Springs workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 121 commuters (the 1% 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.
How far it is to work from Blue Springs
About 18% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Blue Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Blue Springs?
$44,286 (±$19,495) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Blue Springs?
15.2%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blue Springs?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blue Springs work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tupelo (28%, 12 mi), New Albany (18%, 10 mi), Ecru (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Blue Springs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Blue Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blue Springs
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.