Photo: Dofftoubab · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Lauderdale works elsewhere
29 jobs are based in Lauderdale, against 136 working residents. Hardly any work in Lauderdale itself; outside it, Meridian draws the most (37%, 13 miles). The average commute takes 78 minutes each way (Mississippi 26, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Lauderdale, and who commutes in
On a workday 136 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 29 people come in from elsewhere.
About 210 people are in Lauderdale on a workday afternoon, 34% 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 2023, primary jobs.
The places Lauderdale commutes to
Where Lauderdale clocks in
37% 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.
A place that makes things: 52% of Lauderdale’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lauderdale, 2013 → 2023: 59 → 29. 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 Lauderdale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Lauderdale, about 78 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 24.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lauderdale workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 133 commuters (the 9% 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.
Half of Lauderdale commutes less than 15 miles
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 Lauderdale: questions
What is the poverty rate in Lauderdale?
9.1%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lauderdale?
78 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lauderdale work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Meridian (37%, 13 mi), Livingston (4%, 21 mi), Meridian Station (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lauderdale without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lauderdale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lauderdale
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.