Work & commute · Rison

Work & commute in Rison, AR

Most working residents leave Rison for work: only 14% work in town. The top destinations are Pine Bluff (25%), Little Rock (6%) and Fordyce (4%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14%

46 of 336 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 290 Rison residents head out of town to work, 46 work right here, and 478 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Rison.

290live here, work elsewhere

46live and work here

478work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Rison goes to work

Pine Bluff20.1 mi away

25%84

Rison (in town)right here

14%46

Little Rock53.7 mi away

6%20

Fordyce16.1 mi away

4%12

Monticello32.6 mi away

3%11

White Hall22.4 mi away

3%10

Star City20.3 mi away

2%8

Woodlawn8.5 mi away

2%7

Warren25.1 mi away

1%5

Paragould173.1 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%128

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

How far

How far Rison commutes

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

19%

40%

13%

28%

19%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Rison is a job hub

1.56jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Rison are

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

Jobs based in Rison

524 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities7%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Rison residents hold

336 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month46%

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Jobs based in Rison, 2013 → 2023: 523 → 524. 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.