Work & commute · East End

Work & commute in East End, AR

Most working residents leave East End for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Little Rock (45%), North Little Rock (9%) and Bryant (4%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

144 of 3,090 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,946 East End residents head out of town to work, 144 work right here, and 634 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in East End.

2,946live here, work elsewhere

144live and work here

634work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where East End goes to work

Little Rock11.9 mi away

45%1,404

North Little Rock16.5 mi away

9%267

East End (in town)right here

5%144

Bryant10.3 mi away

4%114

Benton14.2 mi away

3%101

Sheridan17.5 mi away

3%84

Pine Bluff29.5 mi away

2%68

Conway36.8 mi away

2%57

Sherwood21.6 mi away

2%48

Hot Springs41.5 mi away

2%48

Everywhere elseother towns and states

24%755

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

How far

How far East End commutes

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

16%

63%

11%

16%Under 10 mi

63%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

East End is a commuter town

0.25jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.25 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in East End are

778 jobs are based in East End. Here is what they are, next to the jobs East End’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in East End

778 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less31%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month30%

Jobs East End residents hold

3,090 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+66%

Jobs based in East End, 2013 → 2023: 470 → 778. 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.