Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Bangs trail those of 90% of U.S. towns
For 5% of workers, the job is at home, against 14% across Texas. 13.0% of residents are in poverty, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. Bangs grades D for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Bangs stands out on work
Bangs and Brownwood trade workers both ways
Brownwood is the top workplace for Bangs residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Bangs come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
41% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Many jobs in Bangs pay little
31% of the jobs based in Bangs pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. 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; with 652 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Bangs
On income, poverty and job access, Bangs is better than 12% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Bangs’ grade up; household income pulls it down ($48,098, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.6%) is left out: Bangs’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Bangs could be anywhere from D to C.
33% of working residents work in Brownwood
Where Bangs clocks in
33% of workers
5% 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.
Miles to work from Bangs
About 41% 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 the 367 jobs in Bangs are
367 jobs are based in Bangs.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bangs, 2013 → 2023: 327 → 367. 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 Bangs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Bangs for work, and who comes in
On a workday 584 residents head out to work, 68 work right here, and 299 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Bangs on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.56 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.
The trip to work from Bangs: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bangs workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 678 commuters (the 5% 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.
Bangs is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bangs is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Bangs 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 712 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). 3.8% of Bangs households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bangs’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Bangs ranks: 4,662nd of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 28 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,660 | Osakis MN | 1,739 | $51K | 14.5% | 0.5% | 7% | D |
| 4,661 | Waymart PA | 1,287 | $52K | 21.1% | 1.7% | 4% | D |
| 4,662 | Bangs TX | 1,523 | $48K | 13.0% | 2.6% | 10% | D |
| 4,663 | Basin WY | 1,334 | $66K | 14.9% | 0.0% | 26% | D |
| 4,664 | Sheridan Township MI | 1,652 | $64K | 20.7% | 6.6% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Bangs, 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 Bangs: questions
What is the median household income in Bangs?
$48,098 (±$8,800) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bangs?
13.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bangs?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bangs work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Brownwood (33%, 9 mi), Austin (5%, 127 mi), Early (3%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bangs walkable?
Bangs is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bangs 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 Bangs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bangs
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.