Photo: Magnolia677 · CC BY-SA 4.0Earning a living in Friars Point
There are 121 jobs in Friars Point, and 196 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Friars Point itself; outside it, Clarksdale draws the most (18%, 13 miles). Commuters spend 24 minutes getting to work on average; Mississippi averages 26, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 195 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 120 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.
0.62 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 Friars Point goes to work
Where Friars Point clocks in
18% of workers
11% of workers
8% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 55% of the jobs in Friars Point
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Friars Point, 2013 → 2023: 667 → 121. 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 Friars Point’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Friars Point spends getting to work: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Friars Point workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 184 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.
The commute from Friars Point, by distance
About 46% 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 Friars Point: questions
What is the median household income in Friars Point?
$17,205 (±$4,396) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Friars Point?
49.7%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Friars Point?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Friars Point work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clarksdale (18%, 13 mi), Tunica Resorts (11%, 36 mi), Memphis (8%, 64 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Friars Point without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 33% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Friars Point, from the people who make the trip.
More of Friars Point
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.