Most of Carter commutes out: there are 0.0 jobs for every working resident
There are 25 jobs in Carter, against 705 working residents. Jobs and income earn Carter B−; getting around on foot earns it D−. Measured by household income, Carter is ahead of 79% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Carter stands out on work
Carter is a place people come home to
There are 25 jobs based in Carter, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Carter has about 1,100 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Carter and Fort Worth trade workers both ways
Fort Worth is the top workplace for Carter residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Carter come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Carter workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 37 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 284 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 705 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Carter
On income, poverty and job access, Carter is better than 50% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Carter’s grade up ($103,264, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (19.5%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (3.6%) is left out: Carter’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Carter could be anywhere from C− to A.
A workday in Carter: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 701 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 21 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Carter on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
26% of working residents work in Fort Worth
Where Carter clocks in
26% of workers
8% 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.
About 37 minutes to work from Carter
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Carter workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 735 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.
Carter makes things: 36% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Carter, 2013 → 2023: 15 → 25. 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 Carter’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Carter
About 20% 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.
Carter is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Carter is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Carter near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 793 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). 1.0% of Carter households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Carter’s commuters take a bus or train.
Carter next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300: 2,175th of 5,760 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 26 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,173 | Jackson Township MN | 1,647 | $69K | 17.6% | 0.9% | <1% | B− |
| 2,174 | Marlborough NH | 2,201 | $69K | 13.2% | 0.4% | 3% | B− |
| 2,175 | Carter TX | 1,738 | $103K | 19.5% | 3.6% | 1% | B− |
| 2,176 | Morningside MD | 1,232 | $69K | 21.4% | 4.7% | 2% | B− |
| 2,177 | Ligonier PA | 1,462 | $71K | 8.9% | 3.9% | 11% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Carter, 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 Carter: questions
What is the median household income in Carter?
$103,264 (±$36,548) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Carter?
19.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Carter?
37 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Carter work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Worth (26%, 25 mi), Weatherford (8%, 11 mi), Dallas (6%, 57 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Carter walkable?
Carter is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 2.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Carter without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Carter, from the people who make the trip.
More of Carter
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.