Hide-A-Way Lake has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Employers in Hide-A-Way Lake report 36 jobs; 715 of its residents have a job. Hide-A-Way Lake grades C+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. A typical one-way commute lasts 34 minutes, next to 26 for Mississippi and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Hide-A-Way Lake
Hide-A-Way Lake is a place people come home to
There are 36 jobs based in Hide-A-Way Lake, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Hide-A-Way Lake has about 1,900 people in it, 26% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Hide-A-Way Lake and Picayune trade workers both ways
Picayune is the top workplace for Hide-A-Way Lake residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Hide-A-Way Lake come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Hide-A-Way Lake workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 26 across Mississippi. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 715 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Hide-A-Way Lake’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hide-A-Way Lake is better than 38% of U.S. towns, #31 of 99 in Mississippi. The poverty rate holds Hide-A-Way Lake’s grade up (5.6%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (6.7%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hide-A-Way Lake could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Who commutes out of Hide-A-Way Lake, and who commutes in
On a workday 712 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 33 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Hide-A-Way Lake on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
24% of working residents work in Picayune
Where Hide-A-Way Lake clocks in
24% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
Commuting from Hide-A-Way Lake: about 34 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hide-A-Way Lake workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,148 commuters (the 6% 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.
Hide-A-Way Lake is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hide-A-Way Lake, 2014 → 2024: 39 → 36. 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 Hide-A-Way Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Hide-A-Way Lake commutes less than 23 miles
About 30% 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.
The commute in Hide-A-Way Lake is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hide-A-Way Lake is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns, #95 of 101 in Mississippi. 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 1,227 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). 0.8% of Hide-A-Way Lake households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hide-A-Way Lake’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,500, Hide-A-Way Lake ranks 2,933rd of 5,083 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 570 | Bridgetown MS | 3,195 | $139K | 1.0% | 5.8% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 938 | Gluckstadt MS | 3,500 | $124K | 5.3% | 5.4% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,814 | Guntown MS | 2,616 | $96K | 9.8% | 3.4% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,931 | Wilmington VT | 2,280 | $70K | 6.1% | 3.7% | 36% | C+ |
| 2,932 | Tarpey Village CA | 3,106 | $90K | 22.1% | 10.9% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,933 | Hide-A-Way Lake MS | 2,569 | $70K | 5.6% | 6.7% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,934 | Astatula FL | 2,314 | $72K | 13.6% | 6.0% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,935 | Otisfield ME | 1,893 | $84K | 10.3% | 2.6% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,083 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Hide-A-Way Lake, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
Work next door: 24% of Hide-A-Way Lake’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hide-A-Way Lake workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hide-A-Way Lake | – | C+ | D | 34 min | $69,621 |
| Picayune | 24% | D | B+ | 32 min | $41,213 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Picayune. Darker towns draw more of Hide-A-Way Lake’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 Hide-A-Way Lake: questions
What is the median household income in Hide-A-Way Lake?
$69,621 (±$7,012) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hide-A-Way Lake?
5.6%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hide-A-Way Lake?
34 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hide-A-Way Lake work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Picayune (24%, 4 mi), Slidell (6%, 22 mi), New Orleans (5%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hide-A-Way Lake walkable?
Hide-A-Way Lake is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hide-A-Way Lake without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hide-A-Way Lake, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hide-A-Way Lake
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.