Photo: Timothy Holdiness · CC BY 4.0For about half of its working residents, Conehatta is a commute to Pearl River
Hardly any work in Conehatta; the top destination outside it is Pearl River (46%, 23 miles). Getting around Conehatta on foot earns D. Below the poverty line: 54.0% of residents, where Mississippi as a whole has 18.9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Conehatta: the figures worth knowing
Conehatta is a place people come home to
There are 8 jobs based in Conehatta, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Conehatta has about 680 people in it, 42% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Nearly half of Conehatta works in Pearl River
231 working residents, 46%, have their main job in Pearl River, 23 miles away. That’s far more as work in Conehatta itself. 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 497 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Conehatta quiets down on a workday
On a workday 496 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.
About 680 people are in Conehatta on a workday afternoon, 42% fewer than live here.
0.02 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Where the trip to work from Conehatta ends
Where Conehatta clocks in
6% 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.
Inside Conehatta’s 8 jobs
8 jobs are based in Conehatta.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Conehatta, 2013 → 2023: 297 → 8. 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 Conehatta’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Conehatta: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Conehatta workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 334 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Conehatta
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.
Most trips from Conehatta start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Conehatta is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, the same share as across Mississippi, on an EPA index of 1.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 334 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). 17.6% of Conehatta households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Conehatta’s commuters take a bus or train.
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 Conehatta: questions
What is the poverty rate in Conehatta?
54.0%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Conehatta?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Conehatta work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pearl River (46%, 23 mi), Forest (13%, 14 mi), Morton (6%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Conehatta walkable?
Conehatta is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 1.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Conehatta without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Conehatta, from the people who make the trip.
More of Conehatta
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.