Work & commute · Dumas

Work & commute in Dumas, AR

44% of Dumas’s working residents work right in town. The top destinations are Pine Bluff (5%), Little Rock (5%) and Monticello (4%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

44%

606 of 1,386 working residents

Typical commute

6 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 780 Dumas residents head out of town to work, 606 work right here, and 1,307 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Dumas.

780live here, work elsewhere

606live and work here

1,307work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Dumas goes to work

Dumas (in town)right here

44%606

Pine Bluff38 mi away

5%70

Little Rock76.6 mi away

5%64

Monticello25.1 mi away

4%49

DeWitt29.2 mi away

3%44

McGehee18.4 mi away

2%22

Star City20.7 mi away

2%21

Stuttgart42.4 mi away

1%19

North Little Rock75.4 mi away

1%18

Camden81.3 mi away

1%12

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%461

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Dumas commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

52%

19%

22%

52%Under 10 mi

7%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Dumas is balanced between jobs and homes

1.38jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.38 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Dumas are

1,913 jobs are based in Dumas. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Dumas’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Dumas

1,913 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)46%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)39%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month56%

Jobs Dumas residents hold

1,386 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)37%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month47%

−1%

Jobs based in Dumas, 2013 → 2023: 1,931 → 1,913. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.