Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Bigfoot has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 14% for Texas as a whole. There are 22 jobs in Bigfoot for 195 working residents. Bigfoot grades B+ for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The four measures behind Bigfoot’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Bigfoot is better than 66% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Bigfoot’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.9%) is left out: Bigfoot’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, Bigfoot could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Bigfoot on a workday afternoon
On a workday 195 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 22 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Bigfoot on a workday afternoon, 16% 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.
29% of working residents work in San Antonio
Where Bigfoot clocks in
29% of workers
13% of workers
6% 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.
73% of the jobs in Bigfoot pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bigfoot, 2013 → 2023: 25 → 22. 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 Bigfoot’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 21 minutes to work from Bigfoot
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bigfoot workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 656 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.
The distance from Bigfoot to work
About 34% 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.
In Bigfoot, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bigfoot is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Bigfoot 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 656 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). 0.0% of Bigfoot households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bigfoot’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Bigfoot is 605th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 603 | Smithfield NY | 1,100 | $81K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 3% | B+ |
| 604 | Martell WI | 1,187 | $95K | 4.5% | 0.5% | <1% | B+ |
| 605 | Bigfoot TX | 1,067 | $69K | 0.0% | 4.9% | 0% | B+ |
| 606 | Collinwood Township MN | 1,213 | $89K | 3.3% | 3.6% | 1% | B+ |
| 607 | Eckford Township MI | 1,282 | $83K | 5.3% | 7.7% | 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 Bigfoot, 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 Bigfoot: questions
What is the median household income in Bigfoot?
$69,418 (±$48,923) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bigfoot?
0.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bigfoot?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bigfoot work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Antonio (29%, 34 mi), Pearsall (13%, 19 mi), Austin (6%, 108 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bigfoot walkable?
Bigfoot is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bigfoot without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bigfoot, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bigfoot
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.