Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Blossom works elsewhere
89 jobs are based in Blossom for 573 working residents. Blossom grades C− for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Blossom
40% of Blossom works in Paris
229 working residents, 40%, have their main job in Paris, 9.2 miles away. That’s 40 times as many as work in Blossom itself. The commute map ↓
Blossom is a place people come home to
There are 89 jobs based in Blossom, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Blossom has about 1,000 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
34% 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 ↓
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 573 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Blossom’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Blossom is better than 21% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Blossom’s grade up (9.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 17% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.2%) is left out: Blossom’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, Blossom could be anywhere from D to B−.
40% of working residents work in Paris
Where Blossom clocks in
2% 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 works in Blossom, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 567 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 83 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Blossom on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
How far it is to work from Blossom
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.
51% of the jobs in Blossom make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blossom, 2013 → 2023: 102 → 89. 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 Blossom’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 23 minutes in Blossom
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blossom workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 647 commuters (the 3% 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.
In Blossom, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Blossom is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Blossom 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 664 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). 8.4% of Blossom households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Blossom’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Blossom ranks: 4,320th of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 34 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,318 | Converse IN | 1,128 | $66K | 18.9% | 4.6% | 5% | C− |
| 4,319 | Dunlap IA | 1,030 | $49K | 7.2% | 5.7% | 14% | C− |
| 4,320 | Blossom TX | 1,493 | $55K | 9.4% | 1.2% | 1% | C− |
| 4,321 | Waverly VA | 1,936 | $50K | 7.8% | 10.8% | 7% | C− |
| 4,322 | Charlotte NY | 1,543 | $61K | 11.7% | 5.4% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Blossom, 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 Blossom: questions
What is the median household income in Blossom?
$55,114 (±$15,973) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Blossom?
9.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blossom?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blossom work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Paris (40%, 9 mi), Dallas (3%, 100 mi), Clarksville (2%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Blossom walkable?
Blossom is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Blossom without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Blossom, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blossom
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.