Photo: Pi3.124 · CC BY-SA 4.0Work, pay and getting to work in Geronimo
Only 3% work in Geronimo; the top destination outside it is San Antonio (19%, 36 miles). Geronimo grades B− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Home is the office for 8% of workers (Texas 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Geronimo apart
Geronimo’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Geronimo is better than 48% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Geronimo’s grade up (ahead of 64% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (12.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (1.9%) is left out: Geronimo’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, Geronimo could be anywhere from C− to A.
How far Geronimo’s workers travel
About 17% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Geronimo
On a workday 643 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 490 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Geronimo on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.77 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.
Where people from Geronimo work
Where Geronimo clocks in
19% of workers
17% of workers
9% 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 Geronimo are in services
507 jobs are based in Geronimo.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Geronimo, 2013 → 2023: 272 → 507. 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 Geronimo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Geronimo takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Geronimo workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 828 commuters (the 7% 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.
Getting around Geronimo: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Geronimo is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Geronimo 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 895 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). 0.0% of Geronimo households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Geronimo’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,041st of 5,397: where Geronimo ranks among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 26 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,039 | Silver Lake Township KS | 1,893 | $57K | 5.5% | 0.0% | 7% | B− |
| 2,040 | Montour Township PA | 1,260 | $68K | 9.5% | 5.8% | 2% | B− |
| 2,041 | Geronimo TX | 1,507 | $72K | 12.7% | 1.9% | 3% | B− |
| 2,042 | Benson UT | 1,776 | $93K | 7.9% | 7.9% | 1% | B− |
| 2,043 | Monroeville OH | 1,283 | $65K | 7.2% | 5.0% | 10% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,397 | 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 Geronimo, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Work next door: 17% of Geronimo’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Seguin. Darker towns draw more of Geronimo’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Geronimo: questions
What is the median household income in Geronimo?
$72,045 (±$29,753) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Geronimo?
12.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Geronimo?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Geronimo work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Antonio (19%, 36 mi), Seguin (17%, 6 mi), New Braunfels (9%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Geronimo walkable?
Geronimo is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Geronimo 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 Geronimo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Geronimo
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.