With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Gholson works elsewhere
Gholson has 80 jobs for 591 working residents. The two grades for Gholson are B for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Home is the office for 5% of workers; Texas has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Gholson stands out on work
Gholson is a place people come home to
There are 80 jobs based in Gholson, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Gholson has about 760 people in it, 40% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Gholson and Waco trade workers both ways
Waco is the top workplace for Gholson residents (28%) and also where the most people who work in Gholson come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% 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 ↓
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 591 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Gholson’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Gholson is better than 55% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Gholson’s grade up (7.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 42% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.7%) is left out: Gholson’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, Gholson could be anywhere from C to A−.
How a workday changes Gholson
On a workday 586 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 75 people come in from elsewhere.
About 760 people are in Gholson on a workday afternoon, 40% 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.
28% of working residents work in Waco
Where Gholson clocks in
12% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Gholson
About 31% 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 kinds of work in Gholson
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gholson, 2013 → 2023: 53 → 80. 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 Gholson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Gholson takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gholson workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 466 commuters (the 5% 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.
In Gholson, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gholson is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Gholson 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 489 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). 1.1% of Gholson households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Gholson’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Gholson ranks: 1,424th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,422 | Duboistown PA | 1,184 | $82K | 11.7% | 3.1% | 1% | B |
| 1,423 | Martindale TX | 1,298 | $78K | 13.4% | 4.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,424 | Gholson TX | 1,274 | $78K | 7.4% | 3.7% | 1% | B |
| 1,425 | Petersham MA | 1,242 | $111K | 8.8% | 4.3% | 7% | B |
| 1,426 | Burgettstown PA | 1,390 | $53K | 5.7% | 6.6% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Gholson, 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 Gholson: questions
What is the median household income in Gholson?
$77,500 (±$17,600) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gholson?
7.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gholson?
28 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gholson work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waco (28%, 11 mi), West (12%, 11 mi), Austin (3%, 102 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gholson walkable?
Gholson is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gholson 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 Gholson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gholson
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.