Work & commute · Wickes

Work & commute in Wickes, AR

Most working residents leave Wickes for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are De Queen (12%), Grannis (8%) and Mena (6%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16 of 233 working residents

Typical commute

21 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 217 Wickes residents head out of town to work, 16 work right here, and 194 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wickes.

217live here, work elsewhere

16live and work here

194work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Wickes goes to work

De Queen17.8 mi away

12%29

Grannis4.1 mi away

8%19

Wickes (in town)right here

7%16

Mena20.2 mi away

6%15

Gillham9.1 mi away

4%9

Nashville36.8 mi away

3%7

Fort Smith72.6 mi away

3%7

Waldron43.7 mi away

3%6

Russellville95.5 mi away

3%6

Broken Bow, OK30.2 mi away

3%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%113

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

How far

How far Wickes commutes

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

25%

26%

12%

37%

25%Under 10 mi

26%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

37%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Wickes is balanced between jobs and homes

0.90jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Wickes are

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

Jobs based in Wickes

210 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)47%

Trade, transport & utilities7%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month61%

Jobs Wickes residents hold

233 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)44%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)45%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month45%

Over $3,333 a month39%

+100%

Jobs based in Wickes, 2013 → 2023: 105 → 210. 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.