Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Bluff Dale has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.6 for each
Employers in Bluff Dale report 32 jobs; 57 of its residents have a job. Only 2% stay in Bluff Dale for work; outside it, Stephenville is the main destination (18%, 15 miles). 2% of workers have no commute at all, next to 14% for Texas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Bluff Dale
On a workday 56 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 160 people are in Bluff Dale on a workday afternoon, 14% 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 Bluff Dale work
Where Bluff Dale clocks in
12% 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.
Making and building: 41% of jobs based in Bluff Dale
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bluff Dale, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 32. 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 Bluff Dale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes to work from Bluff Dale
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bluff Dale workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 130 commuters (the 2% 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.
How many miles Bluff Dale commutes
About 40% 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 Bluff Dale: questions
What is the poverty rate in Bluff Dale?
11.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bluff Dale?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bluff Dale work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Stephenville (18%, 15 mi), Fort Worth (12%, 49 mi), Granbury (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bluff Dale 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 Bluff Dale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bluff Dale
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.