Vancleave has lower unemployment (3.0%) than 70% of U.S. towns
About one in ten stay in Vancleave for work; outside it, Pascagoula is the main destination (21%, 15 miles). Jobs and income earn Vancleave B; getting around on foot earns it D−. Working from home is the commute for 12% of workers, where Mississippi as a whole has 6%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Vancleave, in brief
Vancleave trades workers with the towns around it
Vancleave has about as many jobs (1,988) as working residents (2,217), but they are mostly different people: 1,992 residents leave for work each day while 1,763 people come in. Only 11% of the jobs in Vancleave are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Nearly all the work in Vancleave is services
95% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 3% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Vancleave workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 26 across Mississippi. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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.
What’s behind Vancleave’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Vancleave is better than 59% of U.S. towns, #16 of 99 in Mississippi. The poverty rate holds Vancleave’s grade up (6.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 38% of U.S. towns). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Vancleave could be anywhere from C− to A.
The daily commute in and out of Vancleave
On a workday 1,992 residents head out to work, 225 work right here, and 1,763 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Vancleave is a services town
1,988 jobs are based in Vancleave.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vancleave, 2013 → 2023: 1,562 → 1,988. 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 Vancleave’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Vancleave, about 33 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vancleave workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,965 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.
The places Vancleave commutes to
Where Vancleave clocks in
21% of workers
9% of workers
9% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Vancleave
About 15% 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.
Few in Vancleave walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Vancleave is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns, #101 of 101 in Mississippi. Both inputs place Vancleave near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,238 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). 1.2% of Vancleave households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Vancleave’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Vancleave is 1,639th of 3,627 U.S. towns of 3,600 to 6,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 968 | New Hope MS | 3,952 | $80K | 2.9% | 1.2% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 976 | Gulf Park Estates MS | 6,264 | $66K | 5.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 986 | Saltillo MS | 5,060 | $81K | 6.8% | 1.3% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,637 | Tisbury MA | 4,934 | $74K | 7.1% | 0.6% | 26% | B |
| 1,638 | Vienna Township OH | 4,024 | $76K | 6.7% | 5.2% | 5% | B |
| 1,639 | Vancleave MS | 5,078 | $70K | 6.2% | 3.0% | 10% | B |
| 1,640 | Paola KS | 5,880 | $75K | 7.8% | 4.2% | 21% | B |
| 1,641 | Florence MS | 4,816 | $86K | 6.7% | 6.3% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,627 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Vancleave, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
Work in the towns next to Vancleave
The biggest share goes to Gautier (5%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Vancleave’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Vancleave: questions
What is the median household income in Vancleave?
$70,313 (±$27,544) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vancleave?
6.2%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vancleave?
33 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vancleave work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pascagoula (21%, 15 mi), Ocean Springs (9%, 12 mi), Biloxi (9%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Vancleave walkable?
Vancleave is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Vancleave without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vancleave, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vancleave
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.