Photo: Chillin662 · CC BY-SA 4.0How Valley Park works: jobs, income and commuting
Home is the office for 0% of workers; Mississippi has 6%. Hardly any work in Valley Park; the top destination outside it is Rolling Fork (18%, 19 miles). There are 10 jobs in Valley Park; 17 of its residents have a job.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Valley Park, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 17 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.59 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.
Where Valley Park’s working residents head each day
Where Valley Park clocks in
18% of workers
18% of workers
12% 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 Valley Park
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Valley Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Valley Park
of Valley Park workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 32 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 Valley Park
About 53% 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 Valley Park: questions
What is the median household income in Valley Park?
$55,917 (±$51,166) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Valley Park?
13.7%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Valley Park work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rolling Fork (18%, 19 mi), Greenville (18%, 53 mi), Jackson (12%, 43 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Valley Park without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Valley Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Valley Park
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.