Anna has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Anna has 1,781 jobs, and 10,850 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Anna is better than 79% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (C−). Household incomes here are higher than in 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Anna in brief
Jobs in Anna have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Anna went from 421 in 2013 to 1,781 in 2023, +323%. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Anna
70% of Anna residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 35% of the jobs based in Anna pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 98% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Anna’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Anna is Dallas, 40 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (1,616) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Anna is a place people come home to
There are 1,781 jobs based in Anna, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Anna has about 26,000 people in it, 26% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
39% of the jobs based in Anna are held by workers 29 or younger, against 22% of Anna’s own working residents. 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.
The four measures behind Anna’s grade
Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 84% of U.S. towns); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (4.1%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Anna could be anywhere from B− to A+.
The kinds of work in Anna
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Anna, 2013 → 2023: 421 → 1,781. 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 Anna’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Anna’s workers travel
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.
A workday in Anna: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 10,612 residents head out to work, 238 work right here, and 1,543 people come in from elsewhere.
About 26,000 people are in Anna on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
15% of working residents work in Dallas
Where Anna clocks in
13% 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.
Anna’s commute takes about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Anna workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9,600 commuters (the 24% 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.
Driving is how Anna gets around
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% 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 12,677 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 3.1% of Anna households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Anna’s commuters take a bus or train.
Anna places 447th of 1,219 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 25,000 to 48,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Colleyville TX | 25,727 | $218K | 2.5% | 3.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Corinth TX | 25,297 | $121K | 3.5% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 445 | Shelton CT | 42,880 | $108K | 6.6% | 4.9% | 15% | A− |
| 446 | North Olmsted OH | 31,542 | $84K | 8.3% | 3.0% | 8% | A− |
| 447 | Anna TX | 35,245 | $106K | 7.8% | 4.1% | 2% | A− |
| 448 | Eastern Goleta Valley CA | 28,295 | $146K | 7.9% | 3.9% | 9% | A− |
| 449 | Hercules CA | 26,326 | $129K | 5.6% | 6.4% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,219 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Anna, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Work in the towns next to Anna
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Anna workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna | – | A− | C− | 31 min | $105,593 |
| Melissa | under 2% | A+ | C | 34 min | $138,763 |
| Westminster | under 2% | — | — | 38 min | — |
| Blue Ridge | under 2% | C+ | D | 35 min | $77,333 |
Same-state neighbors only. Westminster: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Anna’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 Anna: questions
What is the median household income in Anna?
$105,593 (±$14,832) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Anna?
7.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Anna?
31 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Anna work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dallas (15%, 40 mi), McKinney (13%, 12 mi), Plano (12%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Anna walkable?
Anna is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Anna without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Anna, from the people who make the trip.
More of Anna
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.