Most of Elmo commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Elmo; the top destination outside it is Dallas (18%, 36 miles). There are 45 jobs in Elmo for 417 working residents. Getting around Elmo on foot earns D−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Elmo: the gist
Elmo is a place people come home to
There are 45 jobs based in Elmo, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Elmo has about 1,000 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Elmo’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Elmo is Dallas, 36 miles away as the crow flies. 18% of working residents (77) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Elmo workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 39 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 299 hours of commuting, 92 more than the state’s typical worker. 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; with 417 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The daily commute in and out of Elmo
On a workday 416 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 44 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Elmo on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
Where in the region Elmo works
About 24% 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 Elmo: about 39 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Elmo workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 469 commuters (the 12% 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.
Where Elmo’s working residents head each day
Where Elmo clocks in
12% 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.
What Elmo’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Elmo, 2013 → 2023: 24 → 45. 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 Elmo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Elmo, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Elmo is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Elmo near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 535 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Elmo households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Elmo’s commuters take a bus or train.
Elmo and its neighbors: 12% work next door
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Terrell. Darker towns draw more of Elmo’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 Elmo: questions
What is the poverty rate in Elmo?
0.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Elmo?
39 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Elmo work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dallas (18%, 36 mi), Terrell (12%, 8 mi), Fort Worth (4%, 70 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Elmo walkable?
Elmo is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Elmo without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Elmo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Elmo
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.