Photo: Natalie Maynor · CC BY 2.0Households in Raymond earn less than those in 96% of U.S. towns
Only 4% stay in Raymond for work; outside it, Jackson is the main destination (31%, 12 miles). The poverty rate is 20.6%, where Mississippi as a whole has 18.9%. Jobs and income earn Raymond C−; getting around on foot earns it A−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Raymond, in a few figures
Raymond is where the jobs are
Raymond has 889 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Raymond and Jackson trade workers both ways
Jackson is the top workplace for Raymond residents (31%) and also where the most people who work in Raymond come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Raymond than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Raymond fell from 1,368 in 2013 to 889 in 2023, −35%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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 553 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Raymond’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Raymond is better than 20% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Raymond’s grade up (ahead of 68% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($40,060, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (4.0%) is left out: Raymond’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Raymond could be anywhere from D to C+.
The daily flow of workers through Raymond
On a workday 532 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 868 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Raymond on a workday afternoon, 24% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Who travels to work in Raymond, and from where
Where Raymond clocks in
31% of workers
6% 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 Raymond
889 jobs are based in Raymond.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Raymond, 2013 → 2023: 1,368 → 889. 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 Raymond’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Raymond’s commute takes about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Raymond workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 495 commuters (the 12% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Raymond
About 17% 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.
Raymond is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Raymond is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 15.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 1.8% across Mississippi, on an EPA index of 7.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 562 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.7% of Raymond households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Raymond’s commuters take a bus or train.
4,054th of 5,877: where Raymond ranks among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,933 | Arnold Line MS | 1,859 | $54K | 16.0% | 0.0% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,001 | Columbus AFB MS | 1,293 | $70K | 6.3% | 1.9% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,293 | Hurley MS | 1,305 | $133K | 12.6% | 4.7% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,052 | Parsonsfield ME | 1,837 | $72K | 12.0% | 2.9% | 4% | C− |
| 4,053 | Tompkins NY | 1,265 | $61K | 8.8% | 0.7% | 1% | C− |
| 4,054 | Raymond MS | 1,384 | $40K | 20.6% | 4.0% | 4% | C− |
| 4,055 | Franklinville NC | 1,256 | $53K | 18.2% | 2.8% | 2% | C− |
| 4,056 | Cando ND | 1,051 | $52K | 6.4% | 0.2% | 30% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Raymond, 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 Raymond: questions
What is the median household income in Raymond?
$40,060 (±$7,298) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Raymond?
20.6%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Raymond?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Raymond work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jackson (31%, 12 mi), Clinton (6%, 8 mi), Ridgeland (5%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Raymond walkable?
Raymond is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 15% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Raymond without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Raymond, from the people who make the trip.
More of Raymond
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.