Photo: Eric Polk · CC BY-SA 4.0Barstow has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
0% of workers have no commute at all, against 14% across Texas. Employers in Barstow report 6 jobs for 114 working residents. Hardly any stay in Barstow for work; outside it, Monahans is the main destination (25%, 23 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Barstow, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 114 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Barstow on a workday afternoon, 43% 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.
Where people from Barstow work
Where Barstow clocks in
25% of workers
9% 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.
Jobs in Barstow: what the 6 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Barstow, 2013 → 2023: 81 → 6. 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 Barstow’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Barstow’s commute takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Barstow workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 95 commuters (the 0% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Barstow
About 45% 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 Barstow: questions
What is the poverty rate in Barstow?
4.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Barstow?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Barstow work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Monahans (25%, 23 mi), Odessa (9%, 68 mi), Town of Pecos (7%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Barstow without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Barstow, from the people who make the trip.
More of Barstow
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.