Photo: Billy Hathorn at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Claude commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
For jobs and income Claude is better than 64% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (C−). Employers in Claude report 197 jobs, and 490 of its residents work somewhere. Home is the office for 6% of workers, next to 14% for Texas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Claude and work: the main findings
How Claude earns its Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Claude’s grade up (1.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 27% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.9%) is left out: Claude’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Claude could be anywhere from B− to B+.
30% of working residents work in Amarillo
Where Claude clocks in
30% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Claude
On a workday 428 residents head out to work, 62 work right here, and 135 people come in from elsewhere.
About 900 people are in Claude on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
The kinds of work in Claude
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Claude, 2013 → 2023: 232 → 197. 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 Claude’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes each way, about the TX average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Claude workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 550 commuters (the 5% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Claude
About 24% 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.
Most of Claude commutes by car
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 582 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). 0.8% of Claude households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Claude’s commuters take a bus or train.
Claude places 916th of 4,312 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 914 | Malvern IA | 1,073 | $84K | 6.5% | 1.0% | 7% | B |
| 915 | South Rockwood MI | 1,576 | $78K | 11.5% | 3.8% | 1% | B |
| 916 | Claude TX | 1,190 | $78K | 1.9% | 0.9% | 13% | B |
| 917 | Gill MA | 1,551 | $90K | 5.8% | 6.3% | 8% | B |
| 918 | Prince's Lakes IN | 1,384 | $89K | 6.8% | 1.7% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Claude, 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 Claude: questions
What is the median household income in Claude?
$77,813 (±$13,532) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Claude?
1.9%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Claude?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Claude work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Amarillo (30%, 27 mi), Lubbock (3%, 111 mi), Washburn (3%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Claude walkable?
Claude is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Claude 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 Claude, from the people who make the trip.
More of Claude
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.