Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Dime Box works elsewhere
Only 1% work in Dime Box; the top destination outside it is Giddings (13%, 13 miles). Dime Box has 39 jobs; 85 of its residents have a job. 0% of workers work from home, where Texas as a whole has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Dime Box
On a workday 84 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 38 people come in from elsewhere.
About 99 people are in Dime Box on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
Commuting out of Dime Box: the destinations
Where Dime Box clocks in
13% of workers
11% of workers
5% 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.
Goods jobs make up 82% of work in Dime Box
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dime Box, 2013 → 2023: 11 → 39. 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 Dime Box’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Dime Box: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dime Box workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 85 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.
How far Dime Box’s workers travel
About 48% 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 Dime Box: questions
What is the median household income in Dime Box?
$88,750 (±$59,336) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dime Box?
2.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dime Box?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dime Box work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Giddings (13%, 13 mi), Austin (11%, 56 mi), San Antonio (5%, 119 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Dime Box 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 Dime Box, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dime Box
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.