Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Diboll trail those of 77% of U.S. towns
Diboll grades C− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Below the poverty line: 19.1% of residents, next to 13.8% across Texas. About one in seven work in Diboll itself; outside it, Lufkin draws the most (31%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Diboll, in brief
Diboll trades workers with the towns around it
Diboll has about as many jobs (1,894) as working residents (1,594), but they are mostly different people: 1,390 residents leave for work each day while 1,690 people come in. Only 11% of the jobs in Diboll are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Diboll are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
Diboll and Lufkin trade workers both ways
Lufkin is the top workplace for Diboll residents (31%) and also where the most people who work in Diboll come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The jobs in Diboll pay better than its residents’ jobs
68% of the jobs based in Diboll pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 53% of the jobs Diboll residents hold. 89% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Diboll. The jobs ↓
Diboll makes and builds things
36% of the jobs based in Diboll are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Diboll residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 25%. The jobs ↓
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.
Inside Diboll’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Diboll is better than 24% of U.S. towns, #481 of 642 in Texas. Unemployment holds Diboll’s grade up (4.5%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Diboll could be anywhere from D to B.
In and out of Diboll on a workday
On a workday 1,390 residents head out to work, 204 work right here, and 1,690 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 (1.19 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.
The daily trip from Diboll: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Diboll workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,651 commuters (the 8% 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.
Out of Diboll to work: where people go
Where Diboll clocks in
31% 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.
36% of the jobs in Diboll make or build things
1,894 jobs are based in Diboll.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Diboll, 2013 → 2023: 2,238 → 1,894. 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 Diboll’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Diboll to work
About 34% 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 Diboll is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Diboll is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns, #169 of 642 in Texas. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 7.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,792 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). 10.4% of Diboll households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Diboll’s commuters take a bus or train.
Diboll places 2,885th of 3,627 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 3,600 to 6,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 7 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,883 | Roscommon Township MI | 4,520 | $53K | 12.3% | 3.6% | 18% | C− |
| 2,884 | New Carlisle OH | 5,525 | $64K | 18.7% | 13.3% | 5% | C− |
| 2,885 | Diboll TX | 5,125 | $58K | 19.1% | 4.5% | 13% | C− |
| 2,886 | Morton Township MI | 4,766 | $73K | 17.4% | 4.3% | 9% | C− |
| 2,887 | Harriman TN | 6,192 | $45K | 21.2% | 4.3% | 8% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,627 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Diboll, 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 Diboll: questions
What is the median household income in Diboll?
$57,902 (±$10,565) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Diboll?
19.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Diboll?
17 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Diboll work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lufkin (31%, 10 mi), Houston (6%, 103 mi), Nacogdoches (4%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Diboll walkable?
Diboll is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Diboll without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Diboll, from the people who make the trip.
More of Diboll
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.