Photo: Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Caddo Mills are higher than in 82% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 6.1% of residents, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. For jobs and income Caddo Mills is better than 76% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (D). Only 4% work in Caddo Mills itself; outside it, Dallas draws the most (12%, 37 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Caddo Mills stands out on work
Caddo Mills trades workers with the towns around it
Caddo Mills has about as many jobs (989) as working residents (1,009), but they are mostly different people: 968 residents leave for work each day while 948 people come in. Only 4% of the jobs in Caddo Mills are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Caddo Mills has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Caddo Mills went from 511 in 2014 to 989 in 2024, +94%. The jobs ↓
Caddo Mills’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Caddo Mills is Dallas, 37 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (124) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Caddo Mills workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Home offices are common in Caddo Mills
22% of Caddo Mills workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Caddo Mills
Household income holds Caddo Mills’ grade up ($107,067, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (5.3%, 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, Caddo Mills could be anywhere from B− to A+.
In and out of Caddo Mills on a workday
On a workday 968 residents head out to work, 41 work right here, and 948 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 (0.98 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Inside Caddo Mills’ 989 jobs
989 jobs are based in Caddo Mills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Caddo Mills, 2014 → 2024: 511 → 989. 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 Caddo Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Caddo Mills goes to work
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.
Each way, about 33 minutes from Caddo Mills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Caddo Mills workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,105 commuters (the 22% 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.
Commuting out of Caddo Mills: the destinations
Where Caddo Mills clocks in
10% 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.
Few in Caddo Mills walk, bike or ride to work
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 1,414 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). 4.3% of Caddo Mills households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Caddo Mills’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Caddo Mills ranks: 948th of 3,476 U.S. towns of 4,000 to 7,700
| # | 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 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Garden Ridge TX | 4,371 | $177K | 0.4% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 946 | Clear Creek Township IN | 5,228 | $84K | 3.2% | 2.7% | 3% | A− |
| 947 | Glenburn ME | 4,825 | $97K | 7.1% | 1.6% | 5% | A− |
| 948 | Caddo Mills TX | 5,715 | $107K | 6.1% | 5.3% | 4% | A− |
| 949 | Monroe Township IN | 6,061 | $91K | 6.4% | 3.6% | 5% | A− |
| 950 | Springfield Township IN | 4,745 | $85K | 2.4% | 4.4% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,476 | 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 Caddo Mills, 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 Caddo Mills: questions
What is the median household income in Caddo Mills?
$107,067 (±$16,523) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Caddo Mills?
6.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Caddo Mills?
33 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Caddo Mills work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dallas (12%, 37 mi), Greenville (10%, 7 mi), Plano (6%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Caddo Mills walkable?
Caddo Mills is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Caddo Mills without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Caddo Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Caddo Mills
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.