Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Aledo are higher than in 96% of U.S. towns
Only 5% work in Aledo; the top destination outside it is Fort Worth (39%, 16 miles). Poverty touches 2.8% of residents (Texas 13.8%). The two grades for Aledo are A+ for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Aledo apart on work
Jobs in Aledo have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Aledo went from 857 in 2013 to 1,808 in 2023, +111%. The jobs ↓
Aledo and Fort Worth trade workers both ways
Fort Worth is the top workplace for Aledo residents (39%) and also where the most people who work in Aledo come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Nearly all the work in Aledo is services
87% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 7% are in factories, building or farms. 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.
What’s behind Aledo’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Aledo is among the top U.S. towns, #15 of 642 in Texas. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Aledo’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Aledo stays A+.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Aledo
1,808 jobs are based in Aledo.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Aledo, 2013 → 2023: 857 → 1,808. 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 Aledo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where people from Aledo work
Where Aledo clocks in
39% of workers
3% 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.
In and out of Aledo on a workday
On a workday 2,201 residents head out to work, 105 work right here, and 1,703 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 (0.78 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.
Commuting from Aledo: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Aledo workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,440 commuters (the 17% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Aledo
About 15% 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.
For most of Aledo, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Aledo is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns, #456 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 2,951 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.7% of Aledo households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Aledo’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Aledo is 48th of 3,164 U.S. towns of 5,000 to 9,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Alamo Heights TX | 7,632 | $183K | 2.5% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Northville MI | 6,013 | $146K | 2.8% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| 47 | Independence OH | 7,456 | $116K | 2.4% | 1.5% | 11% | A+ |
| 48 | Aledo TX | 7,122 | $163K | 2.8% | 1.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 49 | Bull Run VA | 7,823 | $242K | 4.3% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| 50 | Tyrone GA | 8,091 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.3% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,164 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Aledo, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
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 Aledo: questions
What is the median household income in Aledo?
$163,231 (±$13,957) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Aledo?
2.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Aledo?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Aledo work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Worth (39%, 16 mi), Dallas (6%, 49 mi), Weatherford (3%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Aledo walkable?
Aledo is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Aledo without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Aledo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Aledo
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.