Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Dilley’s household incomes are lower than in 70% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 8.6%, next to 13.8% for Texas as a whole. For jobs and income Dilley is better than 31% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (B). Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers, where Texas as a whole has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Dilley and work: the main findings
A big share show a job far from home
61% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Dilley’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Dilley is San Antonio, 68 miles away as the crow flies. 19% of working residents (207) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from Dilley are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Dilley workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
Dilley’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Dilley’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dilley could be anywhere from D to B+.
The distance from Dilley to work
About 61% 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 trip to work from Dilley: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dilley workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,382 commuters (the 2% 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.
Who commutes out of Dilley, and who commutes in
On a workday 951 residents head out to work, 136 work right here, and 599 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.
0.68 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
19% of working residents work in San Antonio
Where Dilley clocks in
19% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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.
Jobs in Dilley: what the 735 are
735 jobs are based in Dilley.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dilley, 2013 → 2023: 868 → 735. 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 Dilley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Dilley is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,408 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). 17.9% of Dilley households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dilley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Dilley next to U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,100: 2,953rd of 4,153 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| 4 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Talty TX | 3,299 | $155K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,951 | Creedmoor NC | 5,046 | $83K | 18.2% | 8.2% | 2% | C |
| 2,952 | Slaughterville OK | 4,332 | $73K | 13.7% | 6.3% | 2% | C |
| 2,953 | Dilley TX | 3,809 | $63K | 8.6% | 4.2% | 13% | C |
| 2,954 | Mooers NY | 3,449 | $61K | 10.0% | 3.3% | 5% | C |
| 2,955 | Pajaro CA | 2,899 | $85K | 19.3% | 12.1% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,153 | 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 Dilley, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Dilley and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Dilley workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dilley | – | C | B | 20 min | $62,600 |
| Hilltop | under 2% | — | — | 35 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Hilltop: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Dilley’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 Dilley: questions
What is the median household income in Dilley?
$62,600 (±$23,042) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dilley?
8.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dilley?
20 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dilley work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Antonio (19%, 68 mi), Austin (6%, 142 mi), Pearsall (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dilley walkable?
Dilley is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dilley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dilley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dilley
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.