Photo: Barbara Brannon · CC BY 2.0Most of Fritch commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 2% of workers; Texas has 14%. 146 jobs are based in Fritch, and 750 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Fritch are B+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Fritch: the gist
Fritch is a place people come home to
There are 146 jobs based in Fritch, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Fritch has about 1,100 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Fritch and Borger trade workers both ways
Borger is the top workplace for Fritch residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Fritch come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Fritch workers work from home
Only 2% 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; with 750 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Fritch’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Fritch is better than 67% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Fritch’s grade up (5.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 25% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Fritch could be anywhere from C to A.
A workday in Fritch: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 719 residents head out to work, 31 work right here, and 115 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Fritch on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
23% of working residents work in Borger
Where Fritch clocks in
23% of workers
22% of workers
3% 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.
From Fritch, about 22 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fritch workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,001 commuters (the 2% 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.
Jobs in Fritch: what the 146 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fritch, 2013 → 2023: 225 → 146. 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 Fritch’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Fritch’s workers travel
About 16% 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.
Getting around Fritch: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fritch is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 12.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,025 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). 0.9% of Fritch households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Fritch’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Fritch is 1,384th of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 27 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,382 | Brookfield Center OH | 1,216 | $61K | 4.2% | 3.5% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,383 | Garfield TX | 1,926 | $73K | 9.6% | 13.6% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,384 | Fritch TX | 1,751 | $89K | 5.2% | 2.8% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,385 | New Glarus WI | 2,266 | $101K | 3.6% | 6.3% | 13% | B+ |
| 1,386 | Blue Ridge Township IL | 1,379 | $87K | 6.6% | 1.7% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Fritch, 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 Fritch: questions
What is the median household income in Fritch?
$88,750 (±$23,270) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fritch?
5.2%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fritch?
22 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fritch work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Borger (23%, 11 mi), Amarillo (22%, 33 mi), Canyon (3%, 49 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fritch walkable?
Fritch is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 12% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fritch without a car?
1% 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 Fritch, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fritch
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.