Work & commute · Lake

Work & commute in Lake, AR

About one in 3 of Lake’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Greenville (5%), McGehee (4%) and Monticello (4%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

35%

230 of 658 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 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 428 Lake residents head out of town to work, 230 work right here, and 782 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lake.

428live here, work elsewhere

230live and work here

782work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lake goes to work

Lake Village (in town)right here

35%230

Greenville, MS13.9 mi away

5%35

McGehee21.6 mi away

4%29

Monticello35.7 mi away

4%27

Little Rock114.4 mi away

4%27

Eudora14.6 mi away

4%26

Pine Bluff74.1 mi away

3%19

Dumas40 mi away

3%17

Dermott16.1 mi away

2%10

Crossett41.4 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%231

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

How far

How far Lake commutes

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

42%

18%

12%

28%

42%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lake is a job hub

1.54jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Lake are

1,012 jobs are based in Lake. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lake

1,012 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Lake residents hold

658 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month39%

+1%

Jobs based in Lake, 2013 → 2023: 1,004 → 1,012. 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.