Photo: NatalieMaynor from Jackson, Mississippi, USA · CC BY 2.0Duck Hill’s household incomes are lower than in 98% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income D−: better than 2% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability D: more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns.
Working residents average 30 minutes each way (Mississippi 26, U.S. 26). Only 1% work in Duck Hill; the top destination outside it is Grenada (26%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Duck Hill
Duck Hill is a place people come home to
There are 42 jobs based in Duck Hill, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 229 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Duck Hill’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Duck Hill is better than 2% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Duck Hill’s grade.
Unemployment (3.9%) is left out: Duck Hill’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, Duck Hill could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Duck Hill quiets down on a workday
On a workday 227 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 40 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Duck Hill on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.18 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.
Half of Duck Hill commutes less than 16 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 36% 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.
26% of working residents work in Grenada
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Duck Hill clocks in
26% of workers
12% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Duck Hill makes things: 74% of its jobs are in goods
42 jobs are based in Duck Hill. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Duck Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Duck Hill, 2013 → 2023: 83 → 42. 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.
About 30 minutes each way, longer than most of Mississippi
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Duck Hill workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 259 commuters (the 11% who work from home are left out). Across Mississippi: 87% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Most trips from Duck Hill start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Duck Hill is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.0% of 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 292 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). 8.6% of Duck Hill households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Duck Hill’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Duck Hill compares with U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Duck Hill, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
| # | 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− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,575 | Cannelton IN | 1,488 | $29K | 39.8% | 12.0% | 6% | D− |
| 5,576 | Erie KS | 1,034 | $37K | 19.6% | 0.0% | 7% | D− |
| 5,577 | Duck Hill MS | 1,414 | $34K | 22.9% | 3.9% | 1% | D− |
| 5,578 | Monticello MS | 1,378 | $34K | 25.4% | 9.8% | 14% | D− |
| 5,579 | Lemmon SD | 1,158 | $50K | 22.0% | 5.1% | 38% | 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.
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 Duck Hill: questions
What is the median household income in Duck Hill?
$33,542 (±$24,208) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Duck Hill?
22.9%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Duck Hill?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Duck Hill work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grenada (26%, 12 mi), Winona (12%, 10 mi), Greenwood (5%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Duck Hill walkable?
Duck Hill is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Duck Hill without a car?
0% 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 Duck Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Duck Hill
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.