Sherman Line Rosenwald School · Photo: Z28scrambler · CC BY-SA 4.0Magnolia draws 1,237 commuters a day, with 1.9 jobs for every working resident
1,329 jobs are based in Magnolia for 686 working residents. Magnolia grades D for jobs and income and B for walkability. Measured by household income, Magnolia is behind 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Magnolia, in brief
Magnolia is where the jobs are
Magnolia has 1,329 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Magnolia and McComb trade workers both ways
McComb is the top workplace for Magnolia residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Magnolia come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer than half of Magnolia workers earn over $40,000 a year
33% of Magnolia’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 21% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
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 686 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Magnolia gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Magnolia is better than 10% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Magnolia’s grade up (ahead of 33% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (29.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Magnolia could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Magnolia by day and by night
On a workday 594 residents head out to work and 92 work right here.
About 2,400 people are in Magnolia on a workday afternoon, 36% 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.
Where the people who work in Magnolia live
Where Magnolia clocks in
5% 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.
What Magnolia’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Magnolia, 2013 → 2023: 1,942 → 1,329. 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 Magnolia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Magnolia spends getting to work: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Magnolia workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,061 commuters (the 3% 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.
Where in the region Magnolia works
About 32% 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.
For most of Magnolia, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Magnolia is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Magnolia 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 1,096 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). 5.9% of Magnolia households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Magnolia’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Magnolia is 4,468th among 5,343 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
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| 1,677 | Lynchburg MS | 2,161 | $89K | 7.1% | 10.2% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,690 | DeLisle MS | 1,906 | $72K | 7.2% | 3.9% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,722 | Sumrall MS | 2,299 | $70K | 4.4% | 6.9% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,466 | Nile Township OH | 2,265 | $57K | 16.1% | 6.4% | 6% | D |
| 4,467 | Perryville AR | 1,408 | $57K | 20.6% | 1.3% | 17% | D |
| 4,468 | Magnolia MS | 1,804 | $55K | 29.8% | 6.4% | 13% | D |
| 4,469 | Timmonsville SC | 2,117 | $35K | 31.2% | 8.4% | 4% | D |
| 4,470 | Albion ME | 2,092 | $62K | 18.4% | 2.8% | 8% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Magnolia, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
Work in the towns next to Magnolia
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Magnolia workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magnolia | – | D | B | 19 min | $55,057 |
| Fernwood | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Fernwood: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Magnolia’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 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 Magnolia: questions
What is the median household income in Magnolia?
$55,057 (±$22,741) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Magnolia?
29.8%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Magnolia?
19 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Magnolia work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are McComb (27%, 6 mi), Brookhaven (5%, 29 mi), Jackson (5%, 81 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Magnolia walkable?
Magnolia is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Magnolia without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Magnolia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Magnolia
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.