Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Bogata have lower incomes than those in 96% of U.S. towns
19.4% of residents are in poverty, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. For jobs and income Bogata is better than 5% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (B). Only 5% work in Bogata; the top destination outside it is Paris (15%, 24 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Bogata: the gist
Bogata’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Bogata is Paris, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (64) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% 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 416 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Bogata: the grade in detail
Job access by car holds Bogata’s grade up (ahead of 19% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($39,861, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Bogata’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Bogata could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Short hops and long hauls from Bogata
About 32% 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.
Who works in Bogata, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 395 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 187 people come in from elsewhere.
About 910 people are in Bogata on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.50 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 the trip to work from Bogata ends
Where Bogata clocks in
6% 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.
In Bogata, 70% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
208 jobs are based in Bogata.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bogata, 2013 → 2023: 157 → 208. 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 Bogata’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Bogata takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bogata workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 244 commuters (the 8% 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.
Most trips from Bogata start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 265 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). 0.8% of Bogata households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 7% of Bogata’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bogata next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,395 | Wheaton MN | 1,330 | $46K | 15.4% | 3.1% | 37% | D− |
| 3,396 | Oak Hill OH | 1,420 | $45K | 18.4% | 5.9% | 4% | D− |
| 3,397 | Bogata TX | 1,118 | $40K | 19.4% | 1.5% | 5% | D− |
| 3,398 | Pomeroy WA | 1,481 | $52K | 16.4% | 6.5% | 29% | D− |
| 3,399 | Frenchville ME | 1,019 | $55K | 18.6% | 0.0% | 15% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Bogata, 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 Bogata: questions
What is the median household income in Bogata?
$39,861 (±$11,031) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bogata?
19.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bogata?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bogata work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Paris (15%, 24 mi), Mount Pleasant (6%, 26 mi), Clarksville (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bogata walkable?
Bogata is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bogata without a car?
7% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bogata, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bogata
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.