Wade has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Wade grades D− for walkability. Employers in Wade report 148 jobs, and 354 of its residents work somewhere. Only 2% stay in Wade for work; outside it, Pascagoula is the main destination (27%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Wade
Each way, about 56 minutes from Wade
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 17.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wade workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 231 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.
Wade on a workday afternoon
On a workday 348 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 142 people come in from elsewhere.
About 980 people are in Wade on a workday afternoon, 17% 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 people from Wade work
Where Wade clocks in
27% of workers
6% 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 Wade
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wade, 2013 → 2023: 140 → 148. 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 Wade’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Wade
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.
Getting around Wade: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wade is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Wade 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 231 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). 3.4% of Wade households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wade’s commuters take a bus or train.
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 Wade: questions
What is the poverty rate in Wade?
56.1%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wade?
56 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wade work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pascagoula (27%, 19 mi), Vancleave (8%, 9 mi), Mobile (6%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wade walkable?
Wade is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wade without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wade, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wade
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.