Photo: John Phelan · CC BY 3.0Work, pay and getting to work in Adrian
0% of workers work from home, next to 14% for Texas as a whole. Only 4% stay in Adrian for work; outside it, Amarillo is the main destination (30%, 48 miles). The trip to work takes 19 minutes on average, next to 27 for Texas and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Adrian
On a workday 44 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 55 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.24 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Adrian goes to work
Where Adrian clocks in
30% of workers
7% of workers
4% 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.
Adrian is a services town
57 jobs are based in Adrian.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Adrian, 2013 → 2023: 47 → 57. 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 Adrian’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Adrian spends getting to work: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Adrian workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 75 commuters (the 0% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Adrian
About 26% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
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.
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 Adrian: questions
What is the poverty rate in Adrian?
11.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Adrian?
19 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Adrian work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Amarillo (30%, 48 mi), Boys Ranch (7%, 30 mi), Canyon (4%, 47 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Adrian without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Adrian, from the people who make the trip.
More of Adrian
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.