Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Bridgeport’s household incomes are higher than in 74% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 2.1%, against 13.8% across Texas. Jobs and income earn Bridgeport A−; getting around on foot earns it C+. Home is the office for 6% of workers; Texas has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Bridgeport, in brief
Fewer jobs are based in Bridgeport than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Bridgeport fell from 6,312 in 2013 to 2,581 in 2023, −59%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Bridgeport trades workers with the towns around it
Bridgeport has about as many jobs (2,581) as working residents (2,498), but they are mostly different people: 2,059 residents leave for work each day while 2,142 people come in. Only 17% of the jobs in Bridgeport are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
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.
How Bridgeport earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bridgeport is better than 78% of U.S. towns, #160 of 642 in Texas. The poverty rate holds Bridgeport’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 49% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bridgeport could be anywhere from B− to A.
Jobs in Bridgeport: what the 2,581 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bridgeport, 2013 → 2023: 6,312 → 2,581. 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 Bridgeport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Bridgeport on a workday
On a workday 2,059 residents head out to work, 439 work right here, and 2,142 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 (1.03 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.
9% of working residents work in Decatur
Where Bridgeport clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
About 29 minutes each way, about the TX average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bridgeport workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,901 commuters (the 6% 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.
Miles to work from Bridgeport
About 27% 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.
Getting around Bridgeport: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bridgeport is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns, #403 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 3,085 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). 0.0% of Bridgeport households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bridgeport’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 4,800 to 9,300, Bridgeport ranks 876th of 3,229 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Alamo Heights TX | 7,632 | $183K | 2.5% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 874 | Martic Township PA | 5,135 | $93K | 9.5% | 0.4% | 6% | A− |
| 875 | Buellton CA | 5,158 | $100K | 4.9% | 2.2% | 12% | A− |
| 876 | Bridgeport TX | 6,915 | $96K | 2.1% | 3.9% | 18% | A− |
| 877 | Bremen GA | 7,751 | $94K | 5.3% | 1.7% | 13% | A− |
| 878 | Kennett Square PA | 6,893 | $81K | 5.3% | 3.1% | 8% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,229 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Bridgeport, 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 Bridgeport: questions
What is the median household income in Bridgeport?
$96,037 (±$22,888) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bridgeport?
2.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bridgeport?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bridgeport work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Decatur (9%, 11 mi), Fort Worth (8%, 39 mi), Denton (3%, 37 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bridgeport walkable?
Bridgeport is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bridgeport 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 Bridgeport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bridgeport
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.