Photo: DoyleWelborn · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Cut and Shoot commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
For jobs and income Cut and Shoot is better than 39% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (C). There are 269 jobs in Cut and Shoot, and 561 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Cut and Shoot; the top destination outside it is Houston (28%, 38 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Cut and Shoot in brief
The figures behind Cut and Shoot’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Cut and Shoot’s grade up (ahead of 67% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (20.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (1.9%) is left out: Cut and Shoot’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Cut and Shoot could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Where Cut and Shoot’s working residents head each day
Where Cut and Shoot clocks in
28% of workers
21% of workers
6% 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.
Who leaves Cut and Shoot for work, and who comes in
On a workday 560 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 268 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Cut and Shoot on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
In Cut and Shoot, 41% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cut and Shoot, 2013 → 2023: 208 → 269. 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 Cut and Shoot’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Cut and Shoot’s commute takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cut and Shoot workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 318 commuters (the 9% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Cut and Shoot
About 20% 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.
The commute in Cut and Shoot is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 3.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 349 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.1% of Cut and Shoot households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cut and Shoot’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Cut and Shoot ranks 1,718th of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,716 | Henderson NE | 1,097 | $83K | 10.3% | 0.7% | 12% | C+ |
| 1,717 | Whitaker PA | 1,123 | $63K | 25.9% | 14.9% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,718 | Cut and Shoot TX | 1,141 | $72K | 20.4% | 1.9% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,719 | Tusten NY | 1,436 | $76K | 6.4% | 9.8% | 11% | C+ |
| 1,720 | Cass Township PA | 1,004 | $79K | 6.7% | 0.0% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Cut and Shoot, 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 Cut and Shoot: questions
What is the median household income in Cut and Shoot?
$72,250 (±$35,542) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cut and Shoot?
20.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cut and Shoot?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cut and Shoot work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (28%, 38 mi), Conroe (21%, 8 mi), The Woodlands (6%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cut and Shoot walkable?
Cut and Shoot is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cut and Shoot without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cut and Shoot, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cut and Shoot
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.