Most of Crandall commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
The two grades for Crandall are B− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Crandall has 529 jobs; 2,596 of its residents have a job. Only 2% work in Crandall; the top destination outside it is Dallas (33%, 22 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Crandall apart on work
Crandall is a place people come home to
There are 529 jobs based in Crandall, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Crandall has about 5,700 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Crandall makes and builds things
45% of the jobs based in Crandall are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Crandall residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 16%. The jobs ↓
Crandall and Dallas trade workers both ways
Dallas is the top workplace for Crandall residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Crandall come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Crandall workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 54 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.
The figures behind Crandall’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Crandall is better than 48% of U.S. towns, #306 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds Crandall’s grade up (ahead of 89% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (19.9%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Crandall could be anywhere from C to A.
How a workday changes Crandall
On a workday 2,549 residents head out to work, 47 work right here, and 482 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,700 people are in Crandall on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 45% of the jobs in Crandall
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crandall, 2013 → 2023: 402 → 529. 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 Crandall’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Crandall’s working residents head each day
Where Crandall clocks in
4% 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 34 minutes each way for Crandall’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crandall workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,876 commuters (the 17% 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.
Where in the region Crandall works
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.
Driving is how Crandall gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Crandall is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns, #368 of 642 in Texas. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,247 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). 5.4% of Crandall households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Crandall’s commuters take a bus or train.
Crandall places 1,815th of 3,051 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 5,400 to 10,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Alamo Heights TX | 7,632 | $183K | 2.5% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Oak Point TX | 6,909 | $126K | 1.5% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,813 | Catalina AZ | 6,489 | $78K | 8.3% | 3.1% | 7% | B− |
| 1,814 | Steger IL | 9,352 | $67K | 12.6% | 5.5% | 4% | B− |
| 1,815 | Crandall TX | 7,730 | $89K | 19.9% | 6.3% | 2% | B− |
| 1,816 | Lockwood MT | 7,181 | $76K | 10.7% | 4.4% | 12% | B− |
| 1,817 | Woodbury NJ | 10,130 | $77K | 13.2% | 7.9% | 6% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,051 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Crandall, 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 Crandall: questions
What is the median household income in Crandall?
$88,997 (±$17,546) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crandall?
19.9%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crandall?
34 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crandall work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dallas (33%, 22 mi), Mesquite (7%, 12 mi), Richardson (4%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Crandall walkable?
Crandall is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crandall 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 Crandall, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crandall
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.