Work & commute · Dumas

Work & commute in Dumas, MS

Most working residents leave Dumas for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Ripley (26%), Tupelo (6%) and New Albany (5%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2 of 218 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

35 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 216 Dumas residents head out of town to work, 2 work right here, and 36 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Dumas.

216live here, work elsewhere

2live and work here

36work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Dumas goes to work

Ripley8.6 mi away

26%56

Tupelo26.2 mi away

6%13

New Albany14.3 mi away

5%11

Booneville15.7 mi away

5%11

Corinth28.4 mi away

3%7

Memphis, TN71.6 mi away

3%7

Blue Mountain10.7 mi away

3%6

Olive Branch60.7 mi away

2%5

Jackson178.8 mi away

2%5

Hickory Flat19.9 mi away

1%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%95

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

How far

How far Dumas commutes

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

30%

39%

13%

18%

30%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Dumas is a commuter town

0.17jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.17 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Dumas are

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

Jobs based in Dumas

38 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)61%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)18%

$1,250 a month or less29%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month29%

Jobs Dumas residents hold

218 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)31%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)45%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+138%

Jobs based in Dumas, 2013 → 2023: 16 → 38. 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.