Photo: Billy Hathorn at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Dumas has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.6 for each
Home is the office for 1% of workers, against 14% across Texas. Employers in Dumas report 4,290 jobs, and 7,520 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Dumas is better than 29% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns (A−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Dumas in brief
Most jobs in Dumas go to people who live here
Of the 4,290 jobs based in Dumas, 51% are held by Dumas residents. In most towns, people from elsewhere hold most of the local jobs. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Dumas are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Dumas workers work from home
Only 1% 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.
Income, poverty and work: Dumas’ grade explained
Unemployment holds Dumas’ grade up (3.4%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (20.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dumas could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Dumas quiets down on a workday
On a workday 5,350 residents head out to work, 2,170 work right here, and 2,120 people come in from elsewhere.
About 12,000 people are in Dumas on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
A commute of about 19 minutes in Dumas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dumas workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,597 commuters (the 1% 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.
21% of working residents work in Cactus
Where Dumas clocks in
10% 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.
What Dumas’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dumas, 2013 → 2023: 3,299 → 4,290. 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 Dumas’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Dumas to work
About 19% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Dumas
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,648 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). 3.8% of Dumas households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Dumas’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 10,000 to 20,000, Dumas ranks 1,892nd of 2,362 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Lantana TX | 12,766 | $199K | 0.6% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Bellaire TX | 17,434 | $244K | 2.4% | 3.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,890 | Locust Grove GA | 14,610 | $75K | 15.9% | 9.9% | 5% | C |
| 1,891 | Somerset Township PA | 11,645 | $63K | 11.7% | 5.2% | 18% | C |
| 1,892 | Dumas TX | 14,862 | $64K | 20.2% | 3.4% | 29% | C |
| 1,893 | Martinsville VA | 13,849 | $47K | 23.5% | 2.9% | 25% | C |
| 1,894 | Diamond Springs CA | 10,927 | $77K | 15.6% | 7.7% | 14% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,362 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Dumas, 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 Dumas: questions
What is the median household income in Dumas?
$63,788 (±$5,856) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dumas?
20.2%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dumas?
19 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dumas work?
29% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cactus (21%, 13 mi), Amarillo (10%, 46 mi), Lubbock (2%, 159 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dumas walkable?
Dumas is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dumas without a car?
<1% 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 Dumas, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dumas
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.