Photo: Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Gilmer are lower than in 93% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 18.3% of residents; Texas has 13.8%. Jobs and income earn Gilmer D; getting around on foot earns it C+. For 3% of workers, the job is at home, next to 14% for Texas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Gilmer, in brief
Gilmer is where the jobs are
Gilmer has 3,822 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Gilmer has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Gilmer went from 2,477 in 2013 to 3,822 in 2023, +54%. The jobs ↓
Few Gilmer workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
The biggest group of Gilmer’s workers comes from Longview
316 of the people who work in Gilmer live in Longview, 18 miles away, more than from any other town. The commute map ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The figures behind Gilmer’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Gilmer is better than 11% of U.S. towns, #591 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds Gilmer’s grade up (ahead of 48% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($44,316, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Gilmer could be anywhere from D to C+.
Gilmer fills up on a workday
On a workday 1,697 residents head out to work, 410 work right here, and 3,412 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,000 people are in Gilmer on a workday afternoon, 32% more than live here.
1.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
What the 3,822 jobs in Gilmer are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gilmer, 2013 → 2023: 2,477 → 3,822. 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 Gilmer’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Gilmer: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gilmer workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,708 commuters (the 3% 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.
Where the people who work in Gilmer live
Where Gilmer clocks in
17% of workers
6% 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 Gilmer
About 29% 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.
For most of Gilmer, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gilmer is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns, #408 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,754 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). 10.1% of Gilmer households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Gilmer’s commuters take a bus or train.
Gilmer next to U.S. towns of 3,700 to 7,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 7 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,282 | St. James MN | 4,863 | $60K | 18.0% | 7.9% | 40% | D |
| 3,283 | Uhrichsville OH | 5,145 | $42K | 26.0% | 7.2% | 13% | D |
| 3,284 | Gilmer TX | 5,287 | $44K | 18.3% | 8.9% | 19% | D |
| 3,285 | Fredericktown MO | 4,584 | $49K | 16.9% | 5.9% | 27% | D |
| 3,286 | Darlington SC | 6,075 | $34K | 30.2% | 7.1% | 14% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,582 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Gilmer, 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 Gilmer: questions
What is the median household income in Gilmer?
$44,316 (±$8,445) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gilmer?
18.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gilmer?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gilmer work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Longview (17%, 18 mi), Tyler (6%, 36 mi), Dallas (3%, 106 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gilmer walkable?
Gilmer is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gilmer without a car?
0% 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 Gilmer, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gilmer
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.