Photo: Chillin662 · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Tutwiler earn less than those in 98% of U.S. towns
9.0% of residents are in poverty, where Mississippi as a whole has 18.9%. For jobs and income Tutwiler is better than 16% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (C−). Hardly any stay in Tutwiler for work; outside it, Clarksdale is the main destination (10%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Tutwiler, in brief
A big share show a job far from home
54% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Tutwiler than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Tutwiler fell from 861 in 2013 to 75 in 2023, −91%. 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 ↓
Tutwiler is a place people come home to
There are 75 jobs based in Tutwiler, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
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 350 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Tutwiler’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Tutwiler’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($34,073, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (19.3%) is left out: Tutwiler’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, Tutwiler could be anywhere from D to C+.
Near or far: the trip to work from Tutwiler
About 54% 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.
The 75 jobs based in Tutwiler
75 jobs are based in Tutwiler.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tutwiler, 2013 → 2023: 861 → 75. 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 Tutwiler’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Tutwiler for work, and who comes in
On a workday 349 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 74 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Tutwiler on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.21 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Commuting out of Tutwiler: the destinations
Where Tutwiler clocks in
10% of workers
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.
From Tutwiler, about 32 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tutwiler workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 523 commuters (the 5% 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.
Few in Tutwiler walk, bike or ride to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 1.8% across Mississippi, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 553 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). 26.7% of Tutwiler households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Tutwiler’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,381 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,200, Tutwiler comes 4,030th on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,637 | Lynchburg MS | 2,161 | $89K | 7.1% | 10.2% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,653 | DeLisle MS | 1,906 | $72K | 7.2% | 3.9% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,919 | Arnold Line MS | 1,859 | $54K | 16.0% | 0.0% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,028 | Pleasant Grove OH | 1,436 | $54K | 22.1% | 2.1% | 1% | C− |
| 4,029 | Springfield MN | 1,980 | $59K | 11.8% | 5.8% | 33% | C− |
| 4,030 | Tutwiler MS | 1,649 | $34K | 9.0% | 19.3% | <1% | C− |
| 4,031 | Forest City PA | 1,741 | $57K | 16.9% | 7.4% | 9% | C− |
| 4,032 | Indian Creek Township IL | 2,055 | $59K | 10.4% | 6.8% | 11% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,381 | 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 Tutwiler, 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 Tutwiler: questions
What is the median household income in Tutwiler?
$34,073 (±$17,106) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tutwiler?
9.0%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tutwiler?
32 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tutwiler work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clarksdale (10%, 14 mi), Jackson (8%, 118 mi), Charleston (5%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tutwiler walkable?
Tutwiler is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tutwiler without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 27% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tutwiler, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tutwiler
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.