Work & commute · Sweet Home

Work & commute in Sweet Home, AR

Most working residents leave Sweet Home for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Little Rock (60%), North Little Rock (10%) and Jacksonville (2%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

6 of 291 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

22%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 285 Sweet Home residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 2,113 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sweet Home.

285live here, work elsewhere

6live and work here

2,113work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sweet Home goes to work

Little Rock7.5 mi away

60%174

North Little Rock8 mi away

10%29

Jacksonville16 mi away

2%6

Conway30.8 mi away

2%6

Sweet Home (in town)right here

2%6

Sherwood13 mi away

2%5

Bryant14.3 mi away

1%3

Pine Bluff34.1 mi away

1%3

Hot Springs47.4 mi away

1%3

Fayetteville145.3 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

18%53

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

How far

How far Sweet Home commutes

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

65%

19%

11%

65%Under 10 mi

19%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sweet Home is a job hub

7.28jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sweet Home are

2,119 jobs are based in Sweet Home. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sweet Home’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Sweet Home

2,119 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities1%

Services (health, schools, offices…)97%

$1,250 a month or less7%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month70%

Jobs Sweet Home residents hold

291 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month41%

−34%

Jobs based in Sweet Home, 2013 → 2023: 3,229 → 2,119. 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.