Photo: Billy Hathorn at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Edna works elsewhere
There are 1,228 jobs in Edna, against 2,396 working residents. For jobs and income Edna is better than 9% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (C). 6% of workers work from home (Texas 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Edna
A big share show a job far from home
40% 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 ↓
Edna’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Edna is Victoria, 23 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (289) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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.
The figures behind Edna’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Edna’s grade up (ahead of 26% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (24.6%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Edna could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Half of Edna commutes less than 25 miles
About 40% 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.
How many people are in Edna by day
On a workday 2,086 residents head out to work, 310 work right here, and 918 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,900 people are in Edna on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
12% of working residents work in Victoria
Where Edna clocks in
12% of workers
7% 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 29% of work in Edna
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edna, 2013 → 2023: 1,569 → 1,228. 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 Edna’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Edna’s commute takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Edna workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,388 commuters (the 6% 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.
In Edna, most people drive to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,529 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). 10.0% of Edna households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Edna’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Edna sits among U.S. towns of 4,300 to 8,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Garden Ridge TX | 4,371 | $177K | 0.4% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,090 | Bloomfield NM | 7,335 | $48K | 25.7% | 5.7% | 16% | D |
| 3,091 | Cobleskill NY | 4,623 | $46K | 16.2% | 6.8% | 19% | D |
| 3,092 | Edna TX | 6,088 | $60K | 24.6% | 7.5% | 13% | D |
| 3,093 | Vandalia IL | 7,108 | $45K | 22.2% | 6.0% | 28% | D |
| 3,094 | Lincoln ME | 4,971 | $56K | 16.5% | 6.1% | 37% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,307 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Edna, 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 Edna: questions
What is the median household income in Edna?
$59,600 (±$15,666) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Edna?
24.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Edna?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Edna work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Victoria (12%, 23 mi), Houston (7%, 94 mi), Vanderbilt (4%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Edna walkable?
Edna is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Edna without a car?
0% 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 Edna, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edna
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.