Photo: Jim Evans · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Ganado earn less than those in 78% of U.S. towns
Ganado grades D for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Below the poverty line: 15.1% of residents (Texas 13.8%). About one in ten work in Ganado; the top destination outside it is Houston (8%, 85 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Ganado, in brief
Ganado’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Ganado is Houston, 85 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (56) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
44% 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 ↓
Ganado makes and builds things
35% of the jobs based in Ganado are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Ganado residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 33%. The jobs ↓
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 738 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Ganado’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Ganado is better than 13% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Ganado’s grade.
Unemployment (0.5%) is left out: Ganado’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, Ganado could be anywhere from D− to B.
How many miles Ganado commutes
About 44% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 35% of the jobs in Ganado
812 jobs are based in Ganado.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ganado, 2013 → 2023: 912 → 812. 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 Ganado’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Ganado by day and by night
On a workday 672 residents head out to work, 66 work right here, and 746 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 (1.10 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 Ganado commutes to
Where Ganado clocks in
8% of workers
7% 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.
About 29 minutes each way for Ganado’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ganado workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 714 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.
Ganado is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ganado is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Ganado near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 784 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). 10.3% of Ganado households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Ganado’s commuters take a bus or train.
4,443rd of 5,509: where Ganado ranks among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 22 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| 23 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,441 | Ina IL | 1,612 | $54K | 19.7% | 13.9% | 4% | D |
| 4,442 | Sigourney IA | 1,951 | $58K | 14.8% | 8.3% | 18% | D |
| 4,443 | Ganado TX | 2,009 | $57K | 15.1% | 0.5% | 9% | D |
| 4,444 | Kerens TX | 1,508 | $57K | 16.3% | 4.8% | 11% | D |
| 4,445 | Chester WV | 2,080 | $57K | 15.6% | 13.7% | 12% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Ganado, 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 Ganado: questions
What is the median household income in Ganado?
$57,315 (±$26,691) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ganado?
15.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ganado?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ganado work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (8%, 85 mi), Victoria (7%, 32 mi), Point Comfort (6%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ganado walkable?
Ganado is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ganado without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ganado, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ganado
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.