Photo: Tim Fuller · CC BY 2.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Roxie works elsewhere
A typical one-way commute lasts 33 minutes; Mississippi averages 26, the U.S. 26. There are 11 jobs in Roxie for 170 working residents. Hardly any work in Roxie itself; outside it, Meadville draws the most (9%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Roxie: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 169 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere.
About 300 people are in Roxie 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.
Commuting out of Roxie: the destinations
Where Roxie clocks in
8% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 55% of the jobs in Roxie
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Roxie, 2013 → 2023: 26 → 11. 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 Roxie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 33 minutes in Roxie
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Roxie workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 178 commuters (the 0% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Roxie
About 33% 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 Roxie: questions
What is the poverty rate in Roxie?
44.2%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Roxie?
33 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Roxie work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Meadville (9%, 11 mi), Brookhaven (8%, 37 mi), Bude (6%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Roxie without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Roxie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Roxie
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.