Photo: Chillin662 · CC BY-SA 3.0Silver City has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Silver City has 6 jobs, and 69 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Silver City; the top destination outside it is Greenwood (10%, 34 miles). Working from home is the commute for 12% of workers (Mississippi 6%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Silver City on a workday afternoon
On a workday 69 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 100 people are in Silver City on a workday afternoon, 38% 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.
Where Silver City goes to work
Where Silver City clocks in
10% of workers
9% 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.
Goods, not services: 83% of the jobs in Silver City
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Silver City, 2013 → 2023: 13 → 6. 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 Silver City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes to work from Silver City
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Silver City workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 81 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 Silver City
About 20% 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 Silver City: questions
What is the median household income in Silver City?
$66,667 (±$39,279) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Silver City?
40.6%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Silver City?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Silver City work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenwood (10%, 34 mi), Belzoni (9%, 6 mi), Indianola (4%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Silver City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Silver City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Silver City
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.