Photo: 25or6to4 · CC BY-SA 4.0At 24.3%, unemployment in Falfurrias is among the highest of any U.S. town
Household incomes here are lower than in 89% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Falfurrias D−; getting around on foot earns it C. For 4% of workers, the job is at home, against 14% across Texas.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Falfurrias
Commutes from Falfurrias are quick
The average trip to work takes 15 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
52% 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 ↓
Falfurrias’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Falfurrias is Alice, 37 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (139) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Fewer than half of Falfurrias workers earn over $40,000 a year
38% of Falfurrias’ working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 24% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Few Falfurrias workers work from home
Only 4% 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.
What’s behind Falfurrias’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Falfurrias is better than 2% of U.S. towns, #634 of 642 in Texas. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Falfurrias’ grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Falfurrias could be anywhere from D− to C.
About 15 minutes to work from Falfurrias
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Falfurrias workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,574 commuters (the 4% 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 it is to work from Falfurrias
About 52% 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 1,345 jobs based in Falfurrias
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Falfurrias, 2013 → 2023: 1,343 → 1,345. 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 Falfurrias’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Falfurrias by day and by night
On a workday 1,318 residents head out to work, 341 work right here, and 1,004 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.81 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
8% of working residents work in Alice
Where Falfurrias clocks in
8% of workers
6% 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.
Falfurrias is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Falfurrias is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns, #463 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 1,646 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). 33.1% of Falfurrias households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Falfurrias’ commuters take a bus or train.
Falfurrias and other U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,700
| # | 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+ |
| 5 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,883 | Camilla GA | 4,988 | $38K | 38.0% | 10.9% | 34% | D− |
| 3,884 | Baxley GA | 5,058 | $30K | 32.2% | 9.0% | 29% | D− |
| 3,885 | Falfurrias TX | 4,248 | $49K | 19.9% | 24.3% | 21% | D− |
| 3,886 | Warren AR | 5,146 | $37K | 22.1% | 8.4% | 37% | D− |
| 3,887 | Williamston NC | 5,086 | $39K | 36.3% | 9.8% | 22% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,962 | 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 Falfurrias, 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 Falfurrias: questions
What is the median household income in Falfurrias?
$49,167 (±$41,209) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Falfurrias?
19.9%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Falfurrias?
15 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Falfurrias work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Alice (8%, 37 mi), Corpus Christi (8%, 70 mi), Laredo (6%, 86 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Falfurrias walkable?
Falfurrias is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Falfurrias without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 33% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Falfurrias, from the people who make the trip.
More of Falfurrias
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.