More people are out of work in Cross Roads (10.1%) than in 94% of U.S. towns
Measured by household income, Cross Roads is ahead of 90% of U.S. towns. Cross Roads grades B+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Home is the office for 29% of workers, next to 14% for Texas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Cross Roads and work: the main findings
Jobs in Cross Roads have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Cross Roads went from 301 in 2013 to 951 in 2023, +216%. The jobs ↓
Cross Roads’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Cross Roads is Dallas, 32 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (128) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Cross Roads workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 42 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 322 hours of commuting, 115 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; with 986 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: Cross Roads’ grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cross Roads is better than 70% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Cross Roads’ grade up; unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cross Roads could be anywhere from B to A.
Jobs in Cross Roads: what the 951 are
951 jobs are based in Cross Roads.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cross Roads, 2013 → 2023: 301 → 951. 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 Cross Roads’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Cross Roads
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.
From Cross Roads, about 42 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cross Roads workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 684 commuters (the 29% 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.
Cross Roads on a workday afternoon
On a workday 977 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 942 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.96 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Dallas
Where Cross Roads clocks in
11% 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 Cross Roads, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cross Roads is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Cross Roads 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 964 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). 4.4% of Cross Roads households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cross Roads’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Cross Roads is 1,167th among 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 22 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| 23 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,165 | Navarre Beach FL | 1,558 | $130K | 3.5% | 2.0% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,166 | Wellsville KS | 2,002 | $84K | 8.0% | 1.6% | 9% | B+ |
| 1,167 | Cross Roads TX | 1,965 | $124K | 6.9% | 10.1% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,168 | Cambridge WI | 1,679 | $88K | 8.8% | 2.7% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,169 | Washington Township IN | 2,517 | $71K | 8.9% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Cross Roads, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Around Cross Roads: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cross Roads workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cross Roads | – | B+ | B− | 42 min | $124,145 |
| Providence Village | under 3% | A | C− | 43 min | $110,430 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cross Roads’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Cross Roads: questions
What is the median household income in Cross Roads?
$124,145 (±$15,611) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cross Roads?
6.9%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cross Roads?
42 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 29% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cross Roads work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dallas (13%, 32 mi), Plano (11%, 18 mi), Denton (11%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cross Roads walkable?
Cross Roads is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cross Roads without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cross Roads, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cross Roads
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.