St. Mary's Church of the Assumption · Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Households in Flatonia earn less than those in 72% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 12.6% of residents, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. For jobs and income Flatonia is better than 19% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (A−). About one in seven stay in Flatonia for work; outside it, Austin is the main destination (13%, 57 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Flatonia at work: what stands out
Flatonia’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Flatonia is Austin, 57 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (80) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
51% 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 ↓
Commutes from Flatonia are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas 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 609 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Flatonia’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Flatonia’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 20% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Flatonia’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Flatonia could be anywhere from D− to B.
How many miles Flatonia commutes
About 51% 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.
About 17 minutes to work from Flatonia
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Flatonia workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 698 commuters (the 13% 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 a workday changes Flatonia
On a workday 512 residents head out to work, 97 work right here, and 620 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 (1.18 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.
The places Flatonia commutes to
Where Flatonia clocks in
13% of workers
6% 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.
The kinds of work in Flatonia
717 jobs are based in Flatonia.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Flatonia, 2013 → 2023: 674 → 717. 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 Flatonia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Flatonia is easy on foot, hard by bus
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 805 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). 11.7% of Flatonia households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Flatonia’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900, Flatonia ranks 4,105th of 5,877 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 31 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,103 | Rockwell IA | 1,039 | $61K | 14.8% | 0.9% | 8% | C− |
| 4,104 | Wallis TX | 1,372 | $43K | 25.9% | 26.3% | 6% | C− |
| 4,105 | Flatonia TX | 1,413 | $61K | 12.6% | 0.0% | 16% | C− |
| 4,106 | Ronald Township MI | 1,899 | $63K | 11.9% | 2.6% | 1% | C− |
| 4,107 | Green Valley WI | 1,044 | $67K | 12.4% | 1.9% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Flatonia, 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 Flatonia: questions
What is the median household income in Flatonia?
$61,010 (±$18,760) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Flatonia?
12.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Flatonia?
17 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Flatonia work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Austin (13%, 57 mi), Schulenburg (6%, 12 mi), Houston (4%, 103 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Flatonia walkable?
Flatonia is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Flatonia without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Flatonia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Flatonia
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.