Godager, Adolf and Christine, Homesite · Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Cranfills Gap has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
The average commute takes 48 minutes each way, where Texas has 27 and the U.S. 26. Cranfills Gap has 35 jobs; 129 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Cranfills Gap; the top destination outside it is Clifton (19%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Cranfills Gap
On a workday 129 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 35 people come in from elsewhere.
About 190 people are in Cranfills Gap on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 people from Cranfills Gap work
Where Cranfills Gap clocks in
19% of workers
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.
In Cranfills Gap, 43% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cranfills Gap, 2013 → 2023: 649 → 35. 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 Cranfills Gap’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 48 minutes in Cranfills Gap
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 15.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cranfills Gap workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 117 commuters (the 10% 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.
Cranfills Gap’s commute, mile by mile
About 41% 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.
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 Cranfills Gap: questions
What is the median household income in Cranfills Gap?
$60,833 (±$26,207) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cranfills Gap?
15.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cranfills Gap?
48 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cranfills Gap work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clifton (19%, 15 mi), Waco (13%, 41 mi), Abilene (4%, 121 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cranfills Gap 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 Cranfills Gap, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cranfills Gap
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.