Household incomes in Crystal Springs are lower than in 89% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 17.5%, next to 18.9% for Mississippi as a whole. Crystal Springs grades C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. About one in ten stay in Crystal Springs for work; outside it, Jackson is the main destination (20%, 24 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Crystal Springs: the figures worth knowing
Crystal Springs’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Crystal Springs is Jackson, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 20% of working residents (360) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Crystal Springs than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Crystal Springs fell from 1,759 in 2014 to 1,188 in 2024, −32%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Crystal Springs pay little
26% of the jobs based in Crystal Springs pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How Crystal Springs earns its Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Crystal Springs’ grade up (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($49,291, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Crystal Springs could be anywhere from D to B−.
How far Crystal Springs’ workers travel
About 22% 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.
Inside Crystal Springs’ 1,188 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crystal Springs, 2014 → 2024: 1,759 → 1,188. 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 Crystal Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Crystal Springs
On a workday 1,598 residents head out to work, 184 work right here, and 1,004 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,000 people are in Crystal Springs on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.67 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 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Crystal Springs’ residents
Where Crystal Springs clocks in
20% of workers
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.
The trip to work from Crystal Springs: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crystal Springs workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,862 commuters (the 4% 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.
Most of Crystal Springs commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Crystal Springs is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns, #60 of 101 in Mississippi. Both inputs place Crystal Springs near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,936 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). 8.9% of Crystal Springs households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Crystal Springs’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Crystal Springs ranks: 3,195th of 3,938 U.S. towns of 3,200 to 6,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 934 | Gluckstadt MS | 3,500 | $124K | 5.3% | 5.4% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 994 | New Hope MS | 3,952 | $80K | 2.9% | 1.2% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,010 | Saltillo MS | 5,060 | $81K | 6.8% | 1.3% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,193 | Maurice River Township NJ | 4,780 | $77K | 19.0% | 7.1% | 6% | C− |
| 3,194 | Southside AR | 4,274 | $66K | 17.5% | 5.4% | 14% | C− |
| 3,195 | Crystal Springs MS | 4,629 | $49K | 17.5% | 5.5% | 10% | C− |
| 3,196 | Granite Falls NC | 4,964 | $57K | 17.2% | 6.8% | 5% | C− |
| 3,197 | Brookville Township IN | 5,797 | $64K | 11.3% | 7.6% | 16% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,938 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Crystal Springs, 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 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 Crystal Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Crystal Springs?
$49,291 (±$2,396) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crystal Springs?
17.5%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crystal Springs?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crystal Springs work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jackson (20%, 24 mi), Flowood (6%, 29 mi), Hazlehurst (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Crystal Springs walkable?
Crystal Springs is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crystal Springs without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crystal Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crystal 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. 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.