Work & commute · Sardis

Work & commute in Sardis, MS

Most working residents leave Sardis for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Batesville (14%), Southaven (8%) and Memphis (7%). Half commute less than 35 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

37 of 767 working residents

Typical commute

35 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 730 Sardis residents head out of town to work, 37 work right here, and 410 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sardis.

730live here, work elsewhere

37live and work here

410work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sardis goes to work

Batesville8 mi away

14%105

Southaven35.9 mi away

8%63

Memphis, TN46.7 mi away

7%57

Senatobia12.6 mi away

7%55

Oxford22.1 mi away

6%46

Olive Branch36.2 mi away

6%46

Sardis (in town)right here

5%37

Grenada45.6 mi away

2%19

Horn Lake36.5 mi away

2%17

Hernando29 mi away

2%17

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%305

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

How far

How far Sardis commutes

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

25%

17%

38%

20%

25%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

38%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sardis is a commuter town

0.58jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sardis are

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

Jobs based in Sardis

447 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month35%

Jobs Sardis residents hold

767 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities29%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month38%

+13%

Jobs based in Sardis, 2013 → 2023: 397 → 447. 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.