Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Boyd
5% of workers have no commute at all, next to 14% for Texas as a whole. Jobs and income earn Boyd B; getting around on foot earns it C+. Only 6% stay in Boyd for work; outside it, Fort Worth is the main destination (21%, 24 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Boyd and work: the main findings
Boyd’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Boyd is Fort Worth, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 21% of working residents (133) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Boyd makes and builds things
41% of the jobs based in Boyd are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Boyd residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 25%. The jobs ↓
Boyd workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. 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; with 642 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Boyd’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Boyd is better than 58% of U.S. towns, #260 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds Boyd’s grade up (ahead of 79% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($68,958, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.1%) is left out: Boyd’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, Boyd could be anywhere from C to A.
Short hops and long hauls from Boyd
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 Boyd, 41% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
929 jobs are based in Boyd.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boyd, 2013 → 2023: 841 → 929. 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 Boyd’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 32 minutes from Boyd
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boyd workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 587 commuters (the 5% 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 people are in Boyd by day
On a workday 606 residents head out to work, 36 work right here, and 893 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,800 people are in Boyd on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.45 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Boyd to work: where people go
Where Boyd clocks in
21% of workers
5% of workers
3% 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.
Getting around Boyd: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Boyd is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns, #369 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 615 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). 12.0% of Boyd households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Boyd’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Boyd is 1,728th among 4,868 U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Talty TX | 3,299 | $155K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Southside Place TX | 1,916 | $163K | 5.0% | 5.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,726 | Lake Summerset IL | 2,364 | $108K | 3.0% | 15.9% | 1% | B |
| 1,727 | Corydon IN | 3,196 | $57K | 8.8% | 2.3% | 14% | B |
| 1,728 | Boyd TX | 2,546 | $69K | 10.4% | 3.1% | 6% | B |
| 1,729 | Onondaga Township MI | 3,086 | $91K | 2.5% | 10.1% | 2% | B |
| 1,730 | Pere Marquette Township MI | 2,371 | $85K | 5.9% | 3.3% | 11% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,868 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Boyd, 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 Boyd: questions
What is the median household income in Boyd?
$68,958 (±$12,373) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boyd?
10.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boyd?
32 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boyd work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Worth (21%, 24 mi), Decatur (5%, 10 mi), Irving (3%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Boyd walkable?
Boyd is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Boyd without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Boyd, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boyd
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.