State Highway 79 Bridge at the Red River · Photo: Crimsonedge34 · CC BY-SA 3.0Byers has 0.0 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
26% of workers work from home, where Texas as a whole has 14%. 8 jobs are based in Byers, and 214 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Byers itself; outside it, Wichita Falls draws the most (43%, 22 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Byers at work: what stands out
Byers and Wichita Falls trade workers both ways
Wichita Falls is the top workplace for Byers residents (43%) and also where the most people who work in Byers come from (63% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Byers is a place people come home to
There are 8 jobs based in Byers, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Byers has about 260 people in it, 44% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
41% 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 ↓
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; with 214 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where the trip to work from Byers ends
Where Byers clocks in
43% of workers
4% 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.
How a workday changes Byers
On a workday 214 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.
About 260 people are in Byers on a workday afternoon, 44% 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 2023, primary jobs.
How many miles Byers commutes
About 41% 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.
Goods, not services: 50% of the jobs in Byers
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Byers, 2013 → 2023: 25 → 8. 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 Byers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Byers: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Byers workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 120 commuters (the 26% 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.
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 Byers: questions
What is the median household income in Byers?
$63,333 (±$13,771) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Byers?
12.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Byers?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Byers work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wichita Falls (43%, 22 mi), Fort Worth (4%, 101 mi), Lewisville (3%, 99 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Byers 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 Byers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Byers
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.