Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0About two in five of Guntown’s working residents commute to Tupelo
Household incomes here are higher than in 73% of U.S. towns. For jobs and income Guntown is better than 59% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (D). Only 2% stay in Guntown for work; outside it, Tupelo is the main destination (41%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Guntown apart on work
Guntown makes and builds things
78% of the jobs based in Guntown are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Guntown residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
41% of Guntown works in Tupelo
492 working residents, 41%, have their main job in Tupelo, 13 miles away. That’s 21 times as many as work in Guntown itself. The commute map ↓
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.
What’s behind Guntown’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Guntown’s grade up ($95,625, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 36% of U.S. towns). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Guntown could be anywhere from C− to A.
Guntown makes things: 78% of its jobs are in goods
834 jobs are based in Guntown.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Guntown, 2013 → 2023: 241 → 834. 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 Guntown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that employ Guntown’s residents
Where Guntown clocks in
41% of workers
4% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Guntown
On a workday 1,166 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 809 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Guntown on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.70 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.
Commuting from Guntown: about 28 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Guntown workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,277 commuters (the 3% 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.
Where in the region Guntown works
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Guntown is a driving town
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,317 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). 2.1% of Guntown households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Guntown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Guntown places 1,814th of 5,083 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 570 | Bridgetown MS | 3,195 | $139K | 1.0% | 5.8% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 938 | Gluckstadt MS | 3,500 | $124K | 5.3% | 5.4% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,812 | Dinsmore Township OH | 3,445 | $91K | 4.1% | 6.8% | 10% | B |
| 1,813 | Hawarden IA | 2,665 | $74K | 7.2% | 1.7% | 22% | B |
| 1,814 | Guntown MS | 2,616 | $96K | 9.8% | 3.4% | 2% | B |
| 1,815 | Spring Bay Township IL | 2,529 | $76K | 9.7% | 4.0% | 7% | B |
| 1,816 | Perry Township IN | 2,343 | $82K | 8.4% | 2.4% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,889 | Lynchburg MS | 2,161 | $89K | 7.1% | 10.2% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,083 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Guntown, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
The towns around Guntown
The biggest share goes to Baldwyn (4%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Guntown’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 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 Guntown: questions
What is the median household income in Guntown?
$95,625 (±$20,523) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Guntown?
9.8%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Guntown?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Guntown work?
2% work in town.
Is Guntown walkable?
Guntown is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Guntown 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 Guntown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Guntown
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. 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.