Photo: Loco Steve · CC BY 2.0Household incomes in Hazlehurst are lower than in 94% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 33.0%, where Mississippi as a whole has 18.9%. For jobs and income Hazlehurst is better than 16% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (C−). About one in five work in Hazlehurst itself; outside it, Jackson draws the most (14%, 33 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hazlehurst and work: the main findings
Fewer than half of Hazlehurst workers earn over $40,000 a year
34% of Hazlehurst’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 22% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Hazlehurst is where the jobs are
Hazlehurst has 2,496 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Hazlehurst’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Hazlehurst is Jackson, 33 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (181) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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.
Where Hazlehurst’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Unemployment holds Hazlehurst’s grade up (4.4%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hazlehurst could be anywhere from D to C.
The 2,496 jobs based in Hazlehurst
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hazlehurst, 2013 → 2023: 2,733 → 2,496. 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 Hazlehurst’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Hazlehurst
On a workday 1,033 residents head out to work, 278 work right here, and 2,218 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,600 people are in Hazlehurst on a workday afternoon, 34% more than live here.
1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
How far Hazlehurst goes to work
About 21% 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.
Where the people who work in Hazlehurst live
Where Hazlehurst clocks in
14% of workers
9% 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.
About 24 minutes each way, about the MS average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hazlehurst workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,386 commuters (the 2% 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.
Most trips from Hazlehurst start in a car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.2% of 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 1,420 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). 9.6% of Hazlehurst households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hazlehurst’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hazlehurst is 3,740th of 4,402 U.S. towns of 2,400 to 4,600 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 600 | Bridgetown MS | 3,195 | $139K | 1.0% | 5.8% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 946 | Gluckstadt MS | 3,500 | $124K | 5.3% | 5.4% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,012 | New Hope MS | 3,952 | $80K | 2.9% | 1.2% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,738 | Oak Trail Shores TX | 3,040 | $34K | 16.8% | 5.4% | <1% | C− |
| 3,739 | Rochester PA | 3,358 | $43K | 23.6% | 9.4% | 3% | C− |
| 3,740 | Hazlehurst MS | 3,435 | $44K | 33.0% | 4.4% | 21% | C− |
| 3,741 | La Verkin UT | 4,515 | $68K | 23.5% | 5.7% | 9% | C− |
| 3,742 | Plainfield Township MI | 3,353 | $52K | 16.1% | 3.6% | 13% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,402 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Hazlehurst, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
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 Hazlehurst: questions
What is the median household income in Hazlehurst?
$43,552 (±$3,831) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hazlehurst?
33.0%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hazlehurst?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hazlehurst work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jackson (14%, 33 mi), Brookhaven (9%, 20 mi), Crystal Springs (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hazlehurst walkable?
Hazlehurst is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hazlehurst without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hazlehurst, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hazlehurst
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.