Work & commute · Pleasant Plains

Work & commute in Pleasant Plains, AR

Most working residents leave Pleasant Plains for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Batesville (28%), Southside (10%) and Searcy (6%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2 of 125 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 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 123 Pleasant Plains residents head out of town to work, 2 work right here, and 50 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pleasant Plains.

123live here, work elsewhere

2live and work here

50work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pleasant Plains goes to work

Batesville14.8 mi away

28%35

Southside11.4 mi away

10%13

Searcy22.5 mi away

6%8

Little Rock70.6 mi away

3%4

Mountain Home68.6 mi away

2%3

Conway57.8 mi away

2%3

Pleasant Plains (in town)right here

2%2

Sulphur Rock15.4 mi away

2%2

Diaz21.7 mi away

2%2

Pocahontas61.2 mi away

2%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%51

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

How far

How far Pleasant Plains commutes

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

10%

60%

27%

10%Under 10 mi

60%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pleasant Plains is a commuter town

0.42jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Pleasant Plains are

52 jobs are based in Pleasant Plains. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pleasant Plains’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Pleasant Plains

52 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities75%

Services (health, schools, offices…)25%

$1,250 a month or less33%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month21%

Jobs Pleasant Plains residents hold

125 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month46%

−66%

Jobs based in Pleasant Plains, 2013 → 2023: 153 → 52. 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.