Photo: formulanone · CC BY-SA 2.0About two in five of Canyon’s working residents commute to Amarillo
About one in four work in Canyon itself; outside it, Amarillo draws the most (41%, 15 miles). Jobs and income earn Canyon B−; getting around on foot earns it B+. Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers; Texas has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Canyon in brief
Canyon trades workers with the towns around it
Canyon has about as many jobs (7,140) as working residents (6,305), but they are mostly different people: 4,732 residents leave for work each day while 5,567 people come in. Only 22% of the jobs in Canyon are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
A young workforce
31% of Canyon’s working residents are 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
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.
Canyon’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Canyon is better than 52% of U.S. towns, #290 of 642 in Texas. Unemployment holds Canyon’s grade up (3.1%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.1%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Canyon could be anywhere from C to B+.
Where Canyon’s working residents head each day
Where Canyon clocks in
41% of workers
1% 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.
In and out of Canyon on a workday
On a workday 4,732 residents head out to work, 1,573 work right here, and 5,567 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 (1.13 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
7,140 jobs are based in Canyon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Canyon, 2013 → 2023: 5,586 → 7,140. 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 Canyon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Canyon
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Canyon workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7,137 commuters (the 6% 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.
The distance from Canyon to work
About 19% 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.
The commute in Canyon is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Canyon is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns, #139 of 642 in Texas. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 7,605 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.8% of Canyon households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Canyon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Canyon next to U.S. towns of 12,000 to 22,000: 1,184th of 1,888 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Lantana TX | 12,766 | $199K | 0.6% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Bellaire TX | 17,434 | $244K | 2.4% | 3.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,182 | Ladson SC | 16,140 | $79K | 12.3% | 5.3% | 2% | B− |
| 1,183 | Whitewater WI | 16,038 | $55K | 26.8% | 5.3% | 22% | B− |
| 1,184 | Canyon TX | 16,518 | $70K | 13.1% | 3.1% | 25% | B− |
| 1,185 | Van Buren Township IN | 12,634 | $74K | 8.7% | 4.8% | 8% | B− |
| 1,186 | Washington Township IN | 18,012 | $71K | 10.9% | 4.2% | 19% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,888 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Canyon, 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 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 Canyon: questions
What is the median household income in Canyon?
$69,772 (±$7,813) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Canyon?
13.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Canyon?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Canyon work?
25% work in town.
Is Canyon walkable?
Canyon is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Canyon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Canyon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Canyon
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. 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.