Photo: Leaflet · CC BY-SA 3.0About half of Anton’s working residents commute to Lubbock
A typical one-way commute lasts 29 minutes, where Texas has 27 and the U.S. 26. 4% of workers work from home, next to 14% for Texas as a whole. Only 2% work in Anton; the top destination outside it is Lubbock (47%, 23 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Anton and work: the main findings
Anton is a place people come home to
There are 33 jobs based in Anton, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Anton has about 560 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Anton workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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; with 392 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Anton’s working residents head each day
Where Anton clocks in
4% 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.
A workday in Anton: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 383 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 24 people come in from elsewhere.
About 560 people are in Anton on a workday afternoon, 39% fewer than live here.
0.08 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.
How long Anton spends getting to work: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Anton workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 433 commuters (the 4% 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.
The kinds of work in Anton
33 jobs are based in Anton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Anton, 2013 → 2023: 46 → 33. 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 Anton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Anton commutes less than 24 miles
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 Anton: questions
What is the median household income in Anton?
$52,000 (±$11,440) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Anton?
13.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Anton?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Anton work?
2% work in town.
Can you get around Anton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Anton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Anton
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.