Photo: Leaflet · CC BY-SA 3.0Work, pay and getting to work in Gail
Working residents average 10 minutes each way, where Texas has 27 and the U.S. 26. 0% of workers work from home (Texas 14%). About one in seven stay in Gail for work; outside it, Midland is the main destination (7%, 64 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Gail, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 124 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 76 people come in from elsewhere.
About 200 people are in Gail on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
0.67 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Commuting out of Gail: the destinations
Where Gail clocks in
7% 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.
Most jobs in Gail are in services
96 jobs are based in Gail.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gail, 2013 → 2023: 86 → 96. 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 Gail’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Gail, about 10 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gail workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 88 commuters (the 0% 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 Gail goes to work
About 53% 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.
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 Gail: questions
What is the poverty rate in Gail?
12.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gail?
10 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gail work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Midland (7%, 64 mi), Big Spring (4%, 37 mi), Odessa (4%, 80 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Gail without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gail, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gail
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.