Work & commute · Mound Bayou

Work & commute in Mound Bayou, MS

Most working residents leave Mound Bayou for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Cleveland (22%), Clarksdale (5%) and Merigold (4%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

40 of 420 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 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 380 Mound Bayou residents head out of town to work, 40 work right here, and 321 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mound Bayou.

380live here, work elsewhere

40live and work here

321work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mound Bayou goes to work

Cleveland9.5 mi away

22%91

Mound Bayou (in town)right here

10%40

Clarksdale23.4 mi away

5%19

Merigold2.9 mi away

4%16

Greenwood39.7 mi away

3%14

Greenville39.1 mi away

3%13

Jackson112.2 mi away

3%13

Indianola30.3 mi away

3%11

Memphis, TN95.2 mi away

2%9

Rosedale18.1 mi away

2%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%187

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

How far

How far Mound Bayou commutes

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

44%

18%

11%

27%

44%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mound Bayou is balanced between jobs and homes

0.86jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mound Bayou are

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

Jobs based in Mound Bayou

361 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities1%

Services (health, schools, offices…)99%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month39%

Jobs Mound Bayou residents hold

420 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month32%

+73%

Jobs based in Mound Bayou, 2013 → 2023: 209 → 361. 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.