Photo: Nicolas Henderson · CC BY 2.0Burkburnett has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Burkburnett has 2,272 jobs for 4,181 working residents. The two grades for Burkburnett are C+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. For 2% of workers, the job is at home (Texas 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Burkburnett apart on work
Burkburnett and Wichita Falls trade workers both ways
Wichita Falls is the top workplace for Burkburnett residents (40%) and also where the most people who work in Burkburnett come from (25% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Burkburnett are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Burkburnett workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Burkburnett
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Burkburnett is better than 37% of U.S. towns, #368 of 642 in Texas. Unemployment holds Burkburnett’s grade up (3.5%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Burkburnett could be anywhere from C− to B.
40% of working residents work in Wichita Falls
Where Burkburnett clocks in
40% of workers
2% 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.
From Burkburnett, about 18 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Burkburnett workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,049 commuters (the 2% 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.
How a workday changes Burkburnett
On a workday 3,374 residents head out to work, 807 work right here, and 1,465 people come in from elsewhere.
About 9,100 people are in Burkburnett 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.
What Burkburnett’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Burkburnett, 2014 → 2024: 2,395 → 2,272. 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 Burkburnett’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Burkburnett
About 28% 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.
For most of Burkburnett, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Burkburnett is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns, #164 of 642 in Texas. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,162 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). 8.4% of Burkburnett households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Burkburnett’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 2,507 U.S. towns of 8,000 to 15,000, Burkburnett comes 1,813th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Lucas TX | 8,896 | $221K | 1.3% | 2.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Lantana TX | 12,766 | $199K | 0.6% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,811 | Jerome ID | 13,731 | $67K | 11.2% | 4.6% | 23% | C+ |
| 1,812 | Festus MO | 14,066 | $74K | 17.1% | 6.6% | 10% | C+ |
| 1,813 | Burkburnett TX | 11,057 | $66K | 16.7% | 3.5% | 19% | C+ |
| 1,814 | Marble Falls TX | 9,633 | $58K | 15.5% | 2.0% | 27% | C+ |
| 1,815 | Geneva Township OH | 10,061 | $59K | 16.4% | 3.1% | 18% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,507 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 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 Burkburnett, 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 Burkburnett: questions
What is the median household income in Burkburnett?
$66,308 (±$5,188) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Burkburnett?
16.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Burkburnett?
18 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Burkburnett work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wichita Falls (40%, 12 mi), Fort Worth (2%, 114 mi), Dallas (2%, 136 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Burkburnett walkable?
Burkburnett is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Burkburnett without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Burkburnett, from the people who make the trip.
More of Burkburnett
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.