Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Bruceville-Eddy has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
There are 279 jobs in Bruceville-Eddy, and 655 of its residents work somewhere. Bruceville-Eddy grades B− for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 3% stay in Bruceville-Eddy for work; outside it, Waco is the main destination (26%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Bruceville-Eddy stands out on work
Inside Bruceville-Eddy’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Bruceville-Eddy is better than 48% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Bruceville-Eddy’s grade up (ahead of 59% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (12.6%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Bruceville-Eddy’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, Bruceville-Eddy could be anywhere from C− to A−.
The commute from Bruceville-Eddy, by distance
About 33% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Bruceville-Eddy
On a workday 635 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 259 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Bruceville-Eddy on a workday afternoon, 25% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Bruceville-Eddy goes to work
Where Bruceville-Eddy clocks in
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.
Bruceville-Eddy is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bruceville-Eddy, 2014 → 2024: 301 → 279. 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 Bruceville-Eddy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Bruceville-Eddy spends getting to work: 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 Bruceville-Eddy workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 693 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.
Getting around Bruceville-Eddy: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bruceville-Eddy is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 750 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). 2.5% of Bruceville-Eddy households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bruceville-Eddy’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bruceville-Eddy places 2,309th of 6,308 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| 34 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,307 | Laughlin AFB TX | 1,595 | $67K | 3.1% | 7.3% | 0% | B− |
| 2,308 | Wurtsboro NY | 1,081 | $79K | 10.8% | 3.5% | 1% | B− |
| 2,309 | Bruceville-Eddy TX | 1,483 | $76K | 12.6% | 2.4% | 3% | B− |
| 2,310 | Star City WV | 1,795 | $59K | 17.8% | 1.9% | 3% | B− |
| 2,311 | Wilson Township MI | 1,872 | $95K | 8.5% | 5.2% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Bruceville-Eddy, 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 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 Bruceville-Eddy: questions
What is the median household income in Bruceville-Eddy?
$76,154 (±$16,686) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bruceville-Eddy?
12.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bruceville-Eddy?
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 Bruceville-Eddy work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waco (26%, 18 mi), Temple (12%, 16 mi), Austin (5%, 76 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Bruceville-Eddy walkable?
Bruceville-Eddy is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bruceville-Eddy 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 Bruceville-Eddy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bruceville-Eddy
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.