Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY 3.0Arp has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
160 jobs are based in Arp; 373 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Arp B−; getting around on foot earns it C−. Hardly any stay in Arp for work; outside it, Tyler is the main destination (38%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Arp
Arp’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Arp is better than 51% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Arp’s grade.
Unemployment (10.6%) is left out: Arp’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Arp could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Where the trip to work from Arp ends
Where Arp clocks in
38% of workers
4% 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.
Who leaves Arp for work, and who comes in
On a workday 370 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 157 people come in from elsewhere.
About 810 people are in Arp on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 55% of the jobs in Arp
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Arp, 2013 → 2023: 127 → 160. 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 Arp’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 25 minutes from Arp
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Arp workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 375 commuters (the 10% 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.
Arp’s commute, mile by mile
About 28% 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.
The commute in Arp is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Arp is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Arp near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 417 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). 4.2% of Arp households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Arp’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Arp comes 992nd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Weston TX | 1,140 | $144K | 2.8% | 0.7% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Randolph AFB TX | 1,240 | $113K | 2.8% | 3.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 990 | West Bethlehem Township PA | 1,284 | $65K | 4.4% | 1.6% | 6% | B− |
| 991 | Germanton NC | 1,087 | $62K | 7.5% | 13.1% | 0% | B− |
| 992 | Arp TX | 1,020 | $73K | 9.8% | 10.6% | 1% | B− |
| 993 | Cedar Lake WI | 1,106 | $85K | 6.1% | 5.3% | 2% | B− |
| 994 | LaCoste TX | 1,255 | $69K | 13.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Arp, 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 Arp: questions
What is the median household income in Arp?
$72,500 (±$23,578) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Arp?
9.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Arp?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Arp work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tyler (38%, 16 mi), Longview (4%, 26 mi), Dallas (3%, 107 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Arp walkable?
Arp is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Arp 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 Arp, from the people who make the trip.
More of Arp
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.