Photo: Nicolas Henderson from Coppell, Texas · CC BY 2.0There are 4.1 jobs in Boys Ranch for every working resident, and 266 people commute in
There are 269 jobs in Boys Ranch, and 65 of its residents work somewhere. Only 5% work in Boys Ranch itself; outside it, Amarillo draws the most (25%, 33 miles). The average commute takes 13 minutes each way, where Texas has 27 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Boys Ranch
On a workday 62 residents head out to work and 3 work right here.
About 510 people are in Boys Ranch on a workday afternoon, 66% more than live here.
4.1 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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 people who work in Boys Ranch live
Where Boys Ranch clocks in
25% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Boys Ranch
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boys Ranch, 2013 → 2023: 422 → 269. 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 Boys Ranch’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Boys Ranch, about 13 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boys Ranch workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 22 commuters (the 12% 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.
Boys Ranch’s commute, mile by mile
About 16% 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 Boys Ranch: questions
What is the poverty rate in Boys Ranch?
30.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boys Ranch?
13 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boys Ranch work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Amarillo (25%, 33 mi), Vega (6%, 22 mi), Hereford (6%, 50 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Boys Ranch without a car?
5% 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 Boys Ranch, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boys Ranch
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.