Bishop has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
4% of workers work from home (Texas 14%). Employers in Bishop report 366 jobs; 1,422 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Bishop is better than 17% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (B−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Bishop, in brief
Bishop’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Bishop is Corpus Christi, 40 miles away as the crow flies. 21% of working residents (303) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Bishop than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Bishop fell from 635 in 2013 to 366 in 2023, −42%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Bishop is a place people come home to
There are 366 jobs based in Bishop, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Bishop has about 2,000 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Bishop 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.
What’s behind Bishop’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Bishop’s grade up (ahead of 49% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (24.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bishop could be anywhere from D to B.
The distance from Bishop to work
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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Bishop
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bishop, 2013 → 2023: 635 → 366. 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 Bishop’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Bishop on a workday
On a workday 1,310 residents head out to work, 112 work right here, and 254 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Bishop on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Bishop
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bishop workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,151 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.
21% of working residents work in Corpus Christi
Where Bishop clocks in
21% of workers
17% 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.
The commute in Bishop is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,201 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.7% of Bishop households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bishop’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bishop next to U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,100: 3,920th of 4,771 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Talty TX | 3,299 | $155K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,918 | Quitman GA | 4,032 | $19K | 42.6% | 2.9% | 16% | C− |
| 3,919 | Athens PA | 3,205 | $53K | 12.8% | 9.4% | 8% | C− |
| 3,920 | Bishop TX | 3,040 | $58K | 24.7% | 6.3% | 8% | C− |
| 3,921 | Haddon Township IN | 3,759 | $63K | 15.0% | 7.0% | 6% | C− |
| 3,922 | Hartford AL | 2,801 | $56K | 18.7% | 5.5% | 13% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,771 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Bishop, 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 Bishop: questions
What is the median household income in Bishop?
$58,152 (±$22,891) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bishop?
24.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bishop?
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 Bishop work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corpus Christi (21%, 40 mi), Kingsville (17%, 6 mi), San Antonio (4%, 137 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bishop walkable?
Bishop is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bishop without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bishop, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bishop
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.