Photo: Roastedbeanz1 · CC BY 4.0Gulf Hills has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Home is the office for 16% of workers (Mississippi 6%). Gulf Hills has 679 jobs; 3,696 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Gulf Hills C+; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Gulf Hills
Gulf Hills is a place people come home to
There are 679 jobs based in Gulf Hills, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Gulf Hills has about 5,400 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Gulf Hills
57% of Gulf Hills residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 33% of the jobs based in Gulf Hills pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 98% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Gulf Hills has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Gulf Hills went from 442 in 2014 to 679 in 2024, +54%. The jobs ↓
Gulf Hills and Biloxi trade workers both ways
Biloxi is the top workplace for Gulf Hills residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Gulf Hills come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Income, poverty and work: Gulf Hills’ grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Gulf Hills is better than 41% of U.S. towns, #28 of 99 in Mississippi. Job access by car holds Gulf Hills’ grade up (ahead of 60% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.2%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Gulf Hills could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Gulf Hills quiets down on a workday
On a workday 3,634 residents head out to work, 62 work right here, and 617 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,400 people are in Gulf Hills on a workday afternoon, 36% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Jobs in Gulf Hills: what the 679 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gulf Hills, 2014 → 2024: 442 → 679. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Gulf Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
21% of working residents work in Biloxi
Where Gulf Hills clocks in
21% of workers
13% of workers
12% 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.
Getting to work from Gulf Hills takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gulf Hills workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,546 commuters (the 16% 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 distance from Gulf Hills to work
About 15% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most of Gulf Hills commutes by car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 4,216 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). 2.0% of Gulf Hills households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Gulf Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Gulf Hills is 1,980th of 2,981 U.S. towns of 5,900 to 11,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
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| 968 | Gulf Park Estates MS | 6,264 | $66K | 5.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,415 | Diamondhead MS | 9,441 | $87K | 7.0% | 4.2% | 8% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,486 | Flowood MS | 11,003 | $84K | 13.4% | 4.1% | 16% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,978 | Elsmere KY | 9,521 | $61K | 15.6% | 5.1% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,979 | Sturgeon Bay WI | 9,917 | $60K | 9.2% | 3.2% | 52% | C+ |
| 1,980 | Gulf Hills MS | 8,451 | $73K | 10.9% | 6.2% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,981 | Sparta WI | 9,974 | $65K | 11.3% | 4.2% | 33% | C+ |
| 1,982 | Wayne Township IN | 11,013 | $60K | 14.9% | 3.2% | 22% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,981 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Gulf Hills, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
Bordering towns draw 10% of Gulf Hills’ workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Gulf Hills workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gulf Hills | – | C+ | C− | 26 min | $72,839 |
| Ocean Springs | 10% | B+ | B− | 26 min | $79,712 |
| St. Martin | under 2% | C− | C+ | 22 min | $55,000 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Ocean Springs. Darker towns draw more of Gulf Hills’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Gulf Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Gulf Hills?
$72,839 (±$9,014) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gulf Hills?
10.9%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gulf Hills?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gulf Hills work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Biloxi (21%, 7 mi), Gulfport (13%, 15 mi), Pascagoula (12%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Gulf Hills walkable?
Gulf Hills is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gulf Hills without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gulf Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gulf Hills
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.