Photo: Henley Quadling · CC BY-SA 3.0Addison draws 78,104 commuters a day, with 8.5 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 25% of workers; Texas has 14%. Addison has 78,781 jobs, and 9,321 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Addison A−; getting around on foot earns it A−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Addison: the figures worth knowing
Addison fills up on a workday
Addison has 78,781 jobs, 8.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 87,000 people are in town, 5 times the 17,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Addison works one town over
42% of working residents work in a town that borders Addison: Dallas (31%), Carrollton (6%) and Farmers Branch (5%). Next door ↓
Home offices are common in Addison
25% of Addison workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Time on the road ↓
Most jobs in Addison pay over $40,000 a year
77% of the jobs based in Addison pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Addison has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Addison went from 56,014 in 2013 to 78,781 in 2023, +41%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Jobs & income in Addison: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Addison is better than 81% of U.S. towns, #142 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds Addison’s grade up (among the top U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($73,854, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Addison could be anywhere from B+ to A.
The workday shuffle in and out of Addison
On a workday 8,644 residents head out to work and 677 work right here.
About 87,000 people are in Addison on a workday afternoon, 404% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How long Addison spends getting to work: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Addison workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9,422 commuters (the 25% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Addison is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Addison, 2013 → 2023: 56,014 → 78,781. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Addison’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Addison’s workers come from
Where Addison clocks in
8% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Miles to work from Addison
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Addison is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 12,601 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 65% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 38% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 17.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 97% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.6% of Addison households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Addison’s commuters take a bus or train.
Addison places 626th of 1,999 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 12,000 to 23,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Lantana TX | 12,766 | $199K | 0.6% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | Bellaire TX | 17,434 | $244K | 2.4% | 3.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 624 | Lebanon NH | 15,481 | $98K | 7.0% | 0.8% | 46% | A− |
| 625 | Mamaroneck NY | 19,896 | $120K | 10.7% | 4.1% | 12% | A− |
| 626 | Addison TX | 17,195 | $74K | 7.6% | 2.8% | 7% | A− |
| 627 | Towamencin Township PA | 17,955 | $100K | 6.6% | 4.7% | 5% | A− |
| 628 | Smithfield UT | 15,153 | $98K | 3.6% | 2.8% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,999 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Addison, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
42% of Addison works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Dallas (31%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Addison workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addison | – | A− | A− | 22 min | $73,854 |
| Dallas | 31% | B− | A | 26 min | $70,518 |
| Carrollton | 6% | A | A− | 24 min | $101,396 |
| Farmers Branch | 5% | A | A− | 22 min | $91,186 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Addison’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Addison: questions
What is the median household income in Addison?
$73,854 (±$4,430) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Addison?
7.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Addison?
22 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Addison work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dallas (31%, 12 mi), Plano (9%, 8 mi), Irving (8%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Addison walkable?
Addison is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 14.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Addison without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 38% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Addison, from the people who make the trip.
More of Addison
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.