Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Crawford has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Crawford report 207 jobs, against 393 working residents. Only 3% work in Crawford; the top destination outside it is Waco (40%, 15 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 26 minutes; Texas averages 27, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Crawford
40% of Crawford works in Waco
157 working residents, 40%, have their main job in Waco, 15 miles away. That’s 13 times as many as work in Crawford itself. The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 393 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where the trip to work from Crawford ends
Where Crawford 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.
How many miles Crawford commutes
About 32% 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.
Crawford on a workday afternoon
On a workday 382 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 196 people come in from elsewhere.
About 750 people are in Crawford on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
Crawford is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crawford, 2013 → 2023: 148 → 207. 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 Crawford’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 26 minutes in Crawford
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crawford workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 427 commuters (the 11% 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.
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 Crawford: questions
What is the median household income in Crawford?
$88,458 (±$27,793) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crawford?
4.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crawford?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crawford work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waco (40%, 15 mi), Austin (4%, 88 mi), Temple (4%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Crawford without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crawford, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crawford
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.