Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Comfort commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Comfort grades B for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Employers in Comfort report 473 jobs, and 930 of its residents work somewhere. Only 4% work in Comfort; the top destination outside it is San Antonio (24%, 42 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Comfort stands out on work
Comfort’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Comfort is San Antonio, 42 miles away as the crow flies. 24% of working residents (224) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Comfort than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Comfort fell from 834 in 2013 to 473 in 2023, −43%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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; with 930 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Comfort gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Comfort is better than 58% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Comfort’s grade. It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (11.4%) is left out: Comfort’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, Comfort could be anywhere from C− to A.
Near or far: the trip to work from Comfort
About 26% 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.
Jobs in Comfort: what the 473 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Comfort, 2013 → 2023: 834 → 473. 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 Comfort’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Comfort for work, and who comes in
On a workday 891 residents head out to work, 39 work right here, and 434 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Comfort on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Where Comfort’s working residents head each day
Where Comfort clocks in
24% of workers
11% of workers
7% 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.
Comfort’s commute takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Comfort workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 750 commuters (the 14% 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.
In Comfort, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Comfort is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Comfort 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 869 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). 0.0% of Comfort households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Comfort’s commuters take a bus or train.
Comfort next to U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100: 1,661st of 5,794 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 28 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,659 | Chester Township MI | 1,770 | $74K | 7.3% | 2.4% | 1% | B |
| 1,660 | Grand Rapids Township OH | 1,582 | $77K | 9.1% | 5.9% | 3% | B |
| 1,661 | Comfort TX | 1,565 | $81K | 8.5% | 11.4% | 4% | B |
| 1,662 | Woodsboro MD | 1,136 | $117K | 16.6% | 2.5% | 2% | B |
| 1,663 | Bogard Township IN | 1,588 | $77K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 8% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Comfort, 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 Comfort: questions
What is the median household income in Comfort?
$80,580 (±$26,964) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Comfort?
8.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Comfort?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Comfort work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Antonio (24%, 42 mi), Boerne (11%, 17 mi), Kerrville (7%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Comfort walkable?
Comfort is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Comfort without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Comfort, from the people who make the trip.
More of Comfort
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.