Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Corrigan are lower than in 97% of U.S. towns
6% of workers have no commute at all, next to 14% for Texas as a whole. The poverty rate is 30.6%, next to 13.8% for Texas as a whole. Corrigan grades D− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Corrigan and work: the main findings
Corrigan is where the jobs are
Corrigan has 1,336 jobs, 2.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,100 people are in town, 54% more than the 1,400 who live here. Day and night ↓
Jobs in Corrigan have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Corrigan went from 606 in 2013 to 1,336 in 2023, +120%. The jobs ↓
Corrigan makes and builds things
57% of the jobs based in Corrigan are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Corrigan residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 27%. 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 603 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Income, poverty and work: Corrigan’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Corrigan is better than 3% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Corrigan’s grade up (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($37,700, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (16.7%) is left out: Corrigan’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, Corrigan could be anywhere from D− to D.
Who leaves Corrigan for work, and who comes in
On a workday 489 residents head out to work, 114 work right here, and 1,222 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Corrigan on a workday afternoon, 54% more than live here.
2.2 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Making and building: 57% of jobs based in Corrigan
1,336 jobs are based in Corrigan.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Corrigan, 2013 → 2023: 606 → 1,336. 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 Corrigan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip into Corrigan
Where Corrigan clocks in
12% of workers
9% of workers
5% 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.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Corrigan
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Corrigan workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 560 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.
How far Corrigan’s workers travel
About 40% 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.
Few in Corrigan walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Corrigan is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 7.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 595 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). 13.3% of Corrigan households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Corrigan’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Corrigan compares with U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 30 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,092 | Shamrock TX | 1,692 | $47K | 19.3% | 5.7% | 31% | D− |
| 5,093 | McCamey TX | 1,743 | $43K | 17.1% | 1.2% | 18% | D− |
| 5,094 | Corrigan TX | 1,358 | $38K | 30.6% | 16.7% | 19% | D− |
| 5,095 | Gretna VA | 1,280 | $34K | 42.2% | 3.8% | 9% | D− |
| 5,096 | Concord Township OH | 1,390 | $45K | 20.9% | 0.0% | 1% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Corrigan, 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 Corrigan: questions
What is the median household income in Corrigan?
$37,700 (±$21,488) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Corrigan?
30.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Corrigan?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Corrigan work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lufkin (12%, 23 mi), Houston (9%, 90 mi), Livingston (5%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Corrigan walkable?
Corrigan is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Corrigan without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Corrigan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Corrigan
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.