Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Brackettville has lower unemployment (1.3%) than 92% of U.S. towns
About one in seven work in Brackettville; the top destination outside it is Del Rio (12%, 29 miles). Jobs and income earn Brackettville C+; getting around on foot earns it A−. 22% of workers work from home; Texas has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Brackettville in brief
A big share show a job far from home
59% 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 ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
67% of the jobs in Brackettville are in trade, transport and utilities, against 27% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Brackettville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Brackettville is Del Rio, 29 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (39) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 334 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Brackettville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Brackettville is better than 44% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Brackettville’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Brackettville could be anywhere from D to B+.
The commute from Brackettville, by distance
About 59% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What the 386 jobs in Brackettville are
386 jobs are based in Brackettville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brackettville, 2014 → 2024: 338 → 386. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brackettville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Brackettville
On a workday 278 residents head out to work, 56 work right here, and 330 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.16 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Brackettville: the destinations
Where Brackettville clocks in
12% of workers
9% of workers
4% 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.
Brackettville’s commute takes about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brackettville workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 852 commuters (the 21% 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.
Brackettville is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brackettville is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 17.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,085 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). 1.6% of Brackettville households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brackettville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Brackettville next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800: 2,197th of 5,400 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| 30 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,195 | Resaca GA | 1,145 | $58K | 7.4% | 0.9% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,196 | Marion TX | 1,101 | $63K | 16.4% | 2.2% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,197 | Brackettville TX | 1,327 | $69K | 10.5% | 1.3% | 17% | C+ |
| 2,198 | Brunswick Township MN | 1,397 | $92K | 8.6% | 6.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,199 | Washington NH | 1,221 | $89K | 8.7% | 0.5% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Brackettville, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Around Brackettville: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Brackettville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brackettville | – | C+ | A− | 16 min | $69,459 |
| Fort Clark Springs | under 2% | C | D− | 18 min | $71,346 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Brackettville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Brackettville: questions
What is the median household income in Brackettville?
$69,459 (±$15,966) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brackettville?
10.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brackettville?
16 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brackettville work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Del Rio (12%, 29 mi), San Antonio (9%, 114 mi), Houston (4%, 304 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Brackettville walkable?
Brackettville is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 18% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brackettville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brackettville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brackettville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.