Work & commute · Bude

Work & commute in Bude, MS

Most working residents leave Bude for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Meadville (16%), Brookhaven (14%) and McComb (6%). Half commute less than 26 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11%

34 of 305 working residents

Typical commute

26 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 271 Bude residents head out of town to work, 34 work right here, and 377 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bude.

271live here, work elsewhere

34live and work here

377work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bude goes to work

Meadville2.4 mi away

16%48

Brookhaven25.5 mi away

14%42

Bude (in town)right here

11%34

McComb27 mi away

6%17

Natchez31.9 mi away

3%10

Jackson69.9 mi away

3%10

Hattiesburg91.2 mi away

2%6

Liberty21 mi away

2%5

Baton Rouge, LA72.4 mi away

1%4

Centreville28.8 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%125

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

How far

How far Bude commutes

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

33%

13%

27%

33%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

27%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bude is balanced between jobs and homes

1.35jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.35 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Bude are

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

Jobs based in Bude

411 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities40%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month66%

Jobs Bude residents hold

305 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month51%

+60%

Jobs based in Bude, 2013 → 2023: 257 → 411. 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.