Photo: Adavyd · CC BY-SA 4.0At 1.7%, unemployment in Angleton is lower than in 88% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Angleton are A− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Only 8% work in Angleton; the top destination outside it is Houston (20%, 42 miles). 8% of workers work from home (Texas 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Angleton, in a few figures
What’s behind Angleton’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Angleton is better than 76% of U.S. towns, #165 of 642 in Texas. Unemployment holds Angleton’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (10.4%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Angleton could be anywhere from B to A.
Half of Angleton commutes less than 31 miles
About 19% 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.
Angleton by day and by night
On a workday 7,383 residents head out to work, 625 work right here, and 3,942 people come in from elsewhere.
About 18,000 people are in Angleton on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.57 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 Angleton’s working residents head each day
Where Angleton clocks in
20% of workers
7% 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.
The 4,567 jobs based in Angleton
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Angleton, 2013 → 2023: 4,977 → 4,567. 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 Angleton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Angleton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Angleton workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8,535 commuters (the 8% 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.
Getting around Angleton: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Angleton is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns, #416 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.5% 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 9,303 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). 3.5% of Angleton households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Angleton’s commuters take a bus or train.
705th of 1,787: where Angleton ranks among U.S. towns of 15,000 to 29,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Wolf Trap VA | 15,858 | $250K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Colleyville TX | 25,727 | $218K | 2.5% | 3.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Corinth TX | 25,297 | $121K | 3.5% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Bellaire TX | 17,434 | $244K | 2.4% | 3.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 703 | Canby OR | 18,004 | $101K | 7.9% | 4.0% | 15% | A− |
| 704 | Phoenixville PA | 20,356 | $102K | 8.1% | 4.8% | 6% | A− |
| 705 | Angleton TX | 21,295 | $87K | 10.4% | 1.7% | 8% | A− |
| 706 | Maryland City MD | 19,186 | $117K | 8.9% | 5.5% | 3% | A− |
| 707 | Allendale Township MI | 27,519 | $82K | 21.4% | 5.9% | 11% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,787 | 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 Angleton, 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 Angleton: questions
What is the median household income in Angleton?
$86,712 (±$13,116) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Angleton?
10.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Angleton?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Angleton work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (20%, 42 mi), Clute (7%, 10 mi), Freeport (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Angleton walkable?
Angleton is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Angleton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Angleton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Angleton
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.