Vicksburg draws about half of Eagle Bend’s working residents
Home is the office for 0% of workers; Mississippi has 6%. Hardly any stay in Eagle Bend for work; outside it, Vicksburg is the main destination (50%, 17 miles). Eagle Bend has 20 jobs, and 113 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Eagle Bend on a workday
On a workday 113 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 20 people come in from elsewhere.
About 320 people are in Eagle Bend on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Where people from Eagle Bend work
Where Eagle Bend clocks in
50% of workers
4% 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 Eagle Bend: what the 20 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eagle Bend, 2013 → 2023: 38 → 20. 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 Eagle Bend’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Eagle Bend
of Eagle Bend workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 113 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Eagle Bend
About 29% 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 Eagle Bend: questions
What is the poverty rate in Eagle Bend?
8.3%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Eagle Bend work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Eagle Bend without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eagle Bend, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eagle Bend
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.