Photo: Chillin662 · CC BY-SA 4.0How Boyle works: jobs, income and commuting
There are 348 jobs in Boyle for 202 working residents. Only 2% work in Boyle; the top destination outside it is Cleveland (36%, 3 miles). The trip to work takes 24 minutes on average, next to 26 for Mississippi and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Boyle stands out on work
Boyle and Cleveland trade workers both ways
Cleveland is the top workplace for Boyle residents (36%) and also where the most people who work in Boyle come from (28% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Boyle makes and builds things
52% of the jobs based in Boyle are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Boyle residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Boyle
53% of Boyle residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 32% of the jobs based in Boyle pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 98% leave town for their job. 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; with 202 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where the people who work in Boyle live
Where Boyle clocks in
36% of workers
6% 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.
A place that makes things: 52% of Boyle’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boyle, 2013 → 2023: 276 → 348. 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 Boyle’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Boyle for work, and who comes in
On a workday 197 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 343 people come in from elsewhere.
About 630 people are in Boyle on a workday afternoon, 30% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
From Boyle, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boyle workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 158 commuters (the 0% 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 many miles Boyle commutes
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.
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 Boyle: questions
What is the median household income in Boyle?
$42,143 (±$33,697) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boyle?
16.4%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boyle?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boyle work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cleveland (36%, 3 mi), Greenville (6%, 29 mi), Greenwood (4%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Boyle 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 Boyle, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boyle
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.