Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Jobs and earnings in Hickory Flat, and the trip to work
Employers in Hickory Flat report 148 jobs; 210 of its residents have a job. Only 3% work in Hickory Flat itself; outside it, Holly Springs draws the most (8%, 18 miles). The average commute, 26 minutes each way, matches the Mississippi norm.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Hickory Flat
On a workday 204 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 142 people come in from elsewhere.
About 430 people are in Hickory Flat on a workday afternoon, 13% 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.
Where Hickory Flat goes to work
Where Hickory Flat clocks in
8% of workers
8% of workers
7% 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 Hickory Flat
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hickory Flat, 2013 → 2023: 106 → 148. 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 Hickory Flat’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Hickory Flat: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hickory Flat workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 182 commuters (the 7% 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 Hickory Flat, by distance
About 27% 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 Hickory Flat: questions
What is the median household income in Hickory Flat?
$34,722 (±$13,424) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hickory Flat?
25.8%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hickory Flat?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hickory Flat work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Holly Springs (8%, 18 mi), Memphis (8%, 56 mi), New Albany (7%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hickory Flat without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 24% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hickory Flat, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hickory Flat
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.