How Bude works: jobs, income and commuting
The trip to work takes 20 minutes on average (Mississippi 26, U.S. 26). About one in ten stay in Bude for work; outside it, Meadville is the main destination (16%, 2 miles). Working from home is the commute for 12% of workers (Mississippi 6%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Bude in brief
The jobs in Bude pay better than its residents’ jobs
66% of the jobs based in Bude pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 51% of the jobs Bude residents hold. 92% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Bude. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Bude 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 ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
40% of the jobs in Bude are in trade, transport and utilities, against 26% of the jobs its residents hold. 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 305 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
66% of the jobs in Bude pay over $3,333 a month
411 jobs are based in Bude.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bude, 2013 → 2023: 257 → 411. 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 Bude’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 20 minutes to work from Bude
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bude workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 194 commuters (the 12% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Bude
On a workday 271 residents head out to work, 34 work right here, and 377 people come in from elsewhere.
About 880 people are in Bude on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.35 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.
Commuting out of Bude: the destinations
Where Bude clocks in
14% 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 Bude goes to work
About 27% 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 Bude: questions
What is the median household income in Bude?
$25,484 (±$7,882) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bude?
44.8%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bude?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bude work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Meadville (16%, 2 mi), Brookhaven (14%, 26 mi), McComb (6%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bude without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bude, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bude
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.