Photo: Chillin662 · CC BY-SA 4.0Work means Grenada for about two in five of Elliott’s working residents
Only 3% work in Elliott; the top destination outside it is Grenada (44%, 7 miles). Working residents average 17 minutes each way (Mississippi 26, U.S. 26). Elliott has 350 jobs for 361 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Elliott, in a few figures
44% of Elliott works in Grenada
160 working residents, 44%, have their main job in Grenada, 7.1 miles away. That’s 15 times as many as work in Elliott itself. The commute map ↓
Elliott makes and builds things
47% of the jobs based in Elliott are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Elliott residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Elliott are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 26 across Mississippi. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Mississippi worker. Time on the road ↓
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 361 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The places Elliott commutes to
Where Elliott clocks in
44% of workers
3% of workers
3% 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.
47% of the jobs in Elliott make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Elliott, 2013 → 2023: 251 → 350. 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 Elliott’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Elliott takes about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Elliott workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 246 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.
Elliott on a workday afternoon
On a workday 351 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 340 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.97 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Short hops and long hauls from Elliott
About 26% 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 Elliott: questions
What is the median household income in Elliott?
$58,045 (±$29,813) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Elliott?
42.1%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Elliott?
17 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Elliott work?
3% work in town.
Can you get around Elliott without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 19% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Elliott, from the people who make the trip.
More of Elliott
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.