Making a living in Cross Timber
A typical one-way commute lasts 24 minutes, where Texas has 27 and the U.S. 26. At home: 7% of workers have no commute at all (Texas 14%). Hardly any stay in Cross Timber for work; outside it, Fort Worth is the main destination (24%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Cross Timber, and who commutes in
On a workday 251 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 205 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 (0.82 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.
Where the trip to work from Cross Timber ends
Where Cross Timber clocks in
24% of workers
10% of workers
8% 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.
Making and building: 76% of jobs based in Cross Timber
205 jobs are based in Cross Timber.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cross Timber, 2013 → 2023: 187 → 205. 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 Timber’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Cross Timber takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cross Timber workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 310 commuters (the 7% 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 Timber’s commute, mile by mile
About 21% 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 Cross Timber: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cross Timber?
34.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cross Timber?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cross Timber work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Worth (24%, 21 mi), Burleson (10%, 2 mi), Cleburne (8%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cross Timber without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cross Timber, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cross Timber
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.