Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Bullard has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Measured by household income, Bullard is ahead of 88% of U.S. towns. Employers in Bullard report 950 jobs; 1,852 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Bullard are B+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Bullard apart on work
Jobs in Bullard have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Bullard went from 458 in 2014 to 950 in 2024, +107%. The jobs ↓
42% of Bullard works in Tyler
775 working residents, 42%, have their main job in Tyler, 12 miles away. That’s 11 times as many as work in Bullard itself. The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Bullard
63% of Bullard residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 45% of the jobs based in Bullard pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 96% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Jobs & income in Bullard: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bullard is better than 73% of U.S. towns, #182 of 642 in Texas. Household income holds Bullard’s grade up ($118,860, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (4.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bullard could be anywhere from B− to A+.
Jobs in Bullard: what the 950 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bullard, 2014 → 2024: 458 → 950. 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 Bullard’s own residents hold wherever they work.
42% of working residents work in Tyler
Where Bullard clocks in
42% 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.
A workday in Bullard: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,785 residents head out to work, 67 work right here, and 883 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,400 people are in Bullard on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
About 31 minutes each way, longer than most of Texas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bullard workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,974 commuters (the 7% 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.
Bullard’s commute, mile by mile
About 26% 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.
Getting around Bullard: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bullard is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns, #345 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.9% 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 2,128 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). 2.0% of Bullard households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bullard’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,103rd of 3,651: where Bullard ranks among U.S. towns of 3,700 to 7,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 7 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,101 | Chillicothe IL | 6,033 | $66K | 3.7% | 2.4% | 17% | B+ |
| 1,102 | Chalfont PA | 4,419 | $124K | 7.4% | 6.9% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,103 | Bullard TX | 5,301 | $119K | 6.2% | 4.7% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,104 | Mount Vernon IA | 4,514 | $113K | 8.2% | 4.2% | 19% | B+ |
| 1,105 | Zimmerman MN | 6,904 | $86K | 11.8% | 1.4% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,651 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Bullard, 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 Bullard: questions
What is the median household income in Bullard?
$118,860 (±$22,409) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bullard?
6.2%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bullard?
31 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bullard work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tyler (42%, 12 mi), Jacksonville (4%, 13 mi), Dallas (2%, 96 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Bullard walkable?
Bullard is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bullard 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 Bullard, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bullard
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.