Photo: Amin Eshaiker · CC BY-SA 4.0Kiln draws 2,463 commuters a day, with 2.9 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Kiln C; getting around on foot earns it D−. Kiln has 2,545 jobs; 864 of its residents have a job. Working from home is the commute for 23% of workers, next to 6% for Mississippi as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Kiln
Kiln is where the jobs are
Kiln has 2,545 jobs, 3.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,700 people are in town, 83% more than the 2,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Jobs in Kiln have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Kiln went from 969 in 2013 to 2,545 in 2023, +163%. The jobs ↓
A lot of Kiln works from home
23% of Kiln workers work from home, against 6% across Mississippi. Time on the road ↓
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; with 864 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Kiln
On income, poverty and job access, Kiln is better than 27% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Kiln’s grade up ($71,875, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (18.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Kiln’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Kiln could be anywhere from D to B.
In and out of Kiln on a workday
On a workday 782 residents head out to work and 82 work right here.
About 3,700 people are in Kiln on a workday afternoon, 83% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Kiln
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kiln, 2013 → 2023: 969 → 2,545. 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 Kiln’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 31 minutes to work from Kiln
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kiln workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 719 commuters (the 23% 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.
Who travels to work in Kiln, and from where
Where Kiln clocks in
13% of workers
9% 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.
The commute from Kiln, by distance
About 25% 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.
Most trips from Kiln start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kiln is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Kiln near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 932 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). 0.6% of Kiln households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kiln’s commuters take a bus or train.
Kiln is 3,600th of 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,735 | Guntown MS | 2,616 | $96K | 9.8% | 3.4% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,808 | Lynchburg MS | 2,161 | $89K | 7.1% | 10.2% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,821 | DeLisle MS | 1,906 | $72K | 7.2% | 3.9% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,598 | Pine AZ | 1,740 | $59K | 5.7% | 0.0% | 16% | C |
| 3,599 | Home Garden CA | 1,806 | $56K | 15.0% | 13.9% | 2% | C |
| 3,600 | Kiln MS | 2,016 | $72K | 18.2% | 5.8% | 9% | C |
| 3,601 | Prineville Lake Acres OR | 1,497 | $80K | 10.7% | 4.3% | 1% | C |
| 3,602 | Twin Lakes VA | 1,562 | $67K | 13.3% | 0.0% | <1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | 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 Kiln, 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 Kiln: questions
What is the median household income in Kiln?
$71,875 (±$40,054) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kiln?
18.2%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kiln?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kiln work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gulfport (13%, 22 mi), Bay St. Louis (9%, 8 mi), Picayune (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kiln walkable?
Kiln is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kiln 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 Kiln, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kiln
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.