Work & commute · Bay Springs

Work & commute in Bay Springs, MS

About one in 4 of Bay Springs’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Laurel (12%), Meridian (5%) and Jackson (5%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

25%

136 of 553 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 417 Bay Springs residents head out of town to work, 136 work right here, and 1,880 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bay Springs.

417live here, work elsewhere

136live and work here

1,880work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bay Springs goes to work

Bay Springs (in town)right here

25%136

Laurel21.3 mi away

12%65

Meridian44.5 mi away

5%26

Jackson59.4 mi away

5%25

Flowood52.6 mi away

2%12

Ellisville26.6 mi away

2%11

Hattiesburg46.4 mi away

2%10

Newton25.5 mi away

2%9

Taylorsville13.5 mi away

1%7

Morton33.7 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%245

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

How far

How far Bay Springs commutes

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

35%

19%

20%

26%

35%Under 10 mi

19%10–24 mi

20%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bay Springs is a job hub

3.65jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Bay Springs are

2,016 jobs are based in Bay Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bay Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Bay Springs

2,016 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)41%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Bay Springs residents hold

553 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)35%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month44%

−25%

Jobs based in Bay Springs, 2013 → 2023: 2,687 → 2,016. 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.