Photo: Magnolia677 · CC BY 4.0Households in Byhalia earn less than those in 97% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 34.9% of residents, where Mississippi as a whole has 18.9%. Jobs and income earn Byhalia D; getting around on foot earns it C−. Only 5% stay in Byhalia for work; outside it, Memphis is the main destination (22%, 23 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Byhalia in brief
Byhalia is where the jobs are
Byhalia has 1,343 jobs, 2.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,200 people are in town, 57% more than the 1,400 who live here. Day and night ↓
Byhalia’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Byhalia is Memphis, TN, 23 miles away as the crow flies. 22% of working residents (118) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
The biggest group of Byhalia’s workers comes from Memphis
128 of the people who work in Byhalia live in Memphis, TN, 23 miles away, more than from any other town. The commute map ↓
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 536 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Byhalia’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Byhalia is better than 15% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Byhalia’s grade up (ahead of 68% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (6.9%) is left out: Byhalia’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Byhalia could be anywhere from D to C.
Who commutes out of Byhalia, and who commutes in
On a workday 507 residents head out to work, 29 work right here, and 1,314 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Byhalia on a workday afternoon, 57% more than live here.
2.5 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.
The distance from Byhalia to work
About 17% 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.
The daily trip into Byhalia
Where Byhalia clocks in
22% of workers
17% of workers
7% 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 Byhalia: what the 1,343 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Byhalia, 2013 → 2023: 1,007 → 1,343. 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 Byhalia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Byhalia: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Byhalia workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 417 commuters (the 9% 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.
Few in Byhalia walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Byhalia is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. 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 458 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). 5.9% of Byhalia households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Byhalia’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Byhalia is 4,443rd of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,933 | Arnold Line MS | 1,859 | $54K | 16.0% | 0.0% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,001 | Columbus AFB MS | 1,293 | $70K | 6.3% | 1.9% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,293 | Hurley MS | 1,305 | $133K | 12.6% | 4.7% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,441 | Holstein IA | 1,470 | $64K | 16.8% | 0.7% | 29% | D |
| 4,442 | Greenup KY | 1,069 | $40K | 15.9% | 6.2% | 8% | D |
| 4,443 | Byhalia MS | 1,412 | $39K | 34.9% | 6.9% | 5% | D |
| 4,444 | Orange Grove TX | 1,178 | $45K | 13.8% | 1.7% | 4% | D |
| 4,445 | Clarksville VA | 1,303 | $64K | 15.4% | 6.6% | 8% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Byhalia, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
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 Byhalia: questions
What is the median household income in Byhalia?
$38,500 (±$12,509) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Byhalia?
34.9%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Byhalia?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Byhalia work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Memphis (22%, 23 mi), Olive Branch (17%, 10 mi), Southaven (7%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Byhalia walkable?
Byhalia is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Byhalia without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Byhalia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Byhalia
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.