Photo: formulanone from Huntsville, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Most of Gattman commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 22% of workers, where Mississippi as a whole has 6%. Gattman has 5 jobs, and 26 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Gattman itself; outside it, Aberdeen draws the most (8%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Gattman
On a workday 26 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 5 people come in from elsewhere.
About 64 people are in Gattman on a workday afternoon, 25% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Gattman’s residents
Where Gattman clocks in
8% 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.
The kinds of work in Gattman
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Gattman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Gattman, about 17 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gattman workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 67 commuters (the 22% 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.
Miles to work from Gattman
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.
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 Gattman: questions
What is the median household income in Gattman?
$66,087 (±$899) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gattman?
24.8%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gattman?
17 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gattman work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Aberdeen (8%, 19 mi), Amory (8%, 16 mi), Columbus (8%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Gattman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gattman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gattman
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.