Pinery Station · Photo: Fredlyfish4 · CC BY-SA 3.0Dell City has 2.0 jobs for every working resident: 119 people commute in to work
Dell City has 123 jobs, against 61 working residents. Only 7% stay in Dell City for work; outside it, El Paso is the main destination (16%, 72 miles). 0% of workers have no commute at all (Texas 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Dell City fills up on a workday
On a workday 57 residents head out to work and 4 work right here.
About 340 people are in Dell City on a workday afternoon, 23% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Dell City’s workers come from
Where Dell City clocks in
16% of workers
3% of workers
3% 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.
Dell City works in goods: 51% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dell City, 2014 → 2024: 195 → 123. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Dell City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Dell City spends getting to work: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dell City workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 52 commuters (the 0% 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.
Half of Dell City commutes less than 69 miles
About 82% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Dell City: questions
What is the poverty rate in Dell City?
9.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dell City?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dell City work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are El Paso (16%, 72 mi), Hobbs (3%, 131 mi), Roswell (3%, 107 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Dell City 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 Dell City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dell City
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.