Photo: John Phelan · CC BY 3.0Alanreed has 0.6 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Hardly any stay in Alanreed for work; outside it, Pampa is the main destination (29%, 27 miles). There are 4 jobs in Alanreed, against 7 working residents. For 0% of workers, the job is at home, next to 14% for Texas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Alanreed
On a workday 7 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 12 people are in Alanreed on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer 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.
Where the trip to work from Alanreed ends
Where Alanreed clocks in
29% of workers
29% of workers
14% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 100% of the jobs in Alanreed
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Alanreed’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Alanreed
of Alanreed workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 15 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 Alanreed
About 43% 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 Alanreed: questions
What is the poverty rate in Alanreed?
0.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Alanreed work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pampa (29%, 27 mi), Amarillo (29%, 62 mi), McLean (14%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Alanreed 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 Alanreed, from the people who make the trip.
More of Alanreed
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.