Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Frankston are lower than in 79% of U.S. towns
Frankston grades C+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. The poverty rate is 9.5%, next to 13.8% for Texas as a whole. Only 7% work in Frankston; the top destination outside it is Tyler (15%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Frankston, in a few figures
Frankston is where the jobs are
Frankston has 600 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
45% 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 ↓
Frankston workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 46 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 356 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Frankston’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Frankston is better than 35% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Frankston’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($56,667, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (4.2%) is left out: Frankston’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Frankston could be anywhere from C− to B.
The workday shuffle in and out of Frankston
On a workday 330 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 574 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Frankston on a workday afternoon, 22% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Frankston
About 45% 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 33 minutes to work from Frankston
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Frankston workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 418 commuters (the 9% 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 Frankston’s workers come from
Where Frankston clocks in
15% of workers
8% 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 Frankston’s employers do
600 jobs are based in Frankston.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Frankston, 2013 → 2023: 491 → 600. 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 Frankston’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Frankston, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Frankston is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns. 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 461 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). 0.7% of Frankston households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Frankston’s commuters take a bus or train.
Frankston is 1,864th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,862 | Springdale NC | 1,075 | $55K | 19.0% | 0.0% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,863 | Panora IA | 1,094 | $66K | 9.3% | 6.3% | 16% | C+ |
| 1,864 | Frankston TX | 1,133 | $57K | 9.5% | 4.2% | 7% | C+ |
| 1,865 | Wilmot Township PA | 1,135 | $85K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,866 | Main Township PA | 1,290 | $71K | 13.8% | 8.4% | <1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Frankston, 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 Frankston: questions
What is the median household income in Frankston?
$56,667 (±$16,749) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Frankston?
9.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Frankston?
33 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Frankston work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tyler (15%, 21 mi), Palestine (8%, 22 mi), Athens (4%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Frankston walkable?
Frankston is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Frankston without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Frankston, from the people who make the trip.
More of Frankston
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.