With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Grand Saline works elsewhere
Employers in Grand Saline report 691 jobs, against 1,227 working residents. The two grades for Grand Saline are C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 88% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Grand Saline: the figures worth knowing
Fewer jobs are based in Grand Saline than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Grand Saline fell from 1,116 in 2014 to 691 in 2024, −38%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
39% 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Where Grand Saline’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Grand Saline is better than 21% of U.S. towns, #516 of 642 in Texas. Unemployment holds Grand Saline’s grade up (3.8%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($50,028, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Grand Saline could be anywhere from D− to B.
What Grand Saline’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grand Saline, 2014 → 2024: 1,116 → 691. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Grand Saline’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Grand Saline works
About 39% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Grand Saline by day and by night
On a workday 1,043 residents head out to work, 184 work right here, and 507 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,800 people are in Grand Saline on a workday afternoon, 16% 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 2024, primary jobs.
7% of working residents work in Tyler
Where Grand Saline clocks in
7% 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.
A commute of about 26 minutes in Grand Saline
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grand Saline workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,037 commuters (the 13% 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.
Grand Saline is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Grand Saline is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns, #420 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.7% of 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 1,195 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). 11.5% of Grand Saline households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Grand Saline’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,500, Grand Saline ranks 3,651st of 4,593 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Talty TX | 3,299 | $155K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,649 | Camdenton MO | 4,050 | $54K | 15.3% | 4.0% | 19% | C− |
| 3,650 | Bishopville SC | 2,829 | $39K | 29.9% | 3.1% | 13% | C− |
| 3,651 | Grand Saline TX | 3,319 | $50K | 18.7% | 3.8% | 15% | C− |
| 3,652 | Parish NY | 2,400 | $68K | 15.3% | 8.7% | 13% | C− |
| 3,653 | Liberty City TX | 2,648 | $63K | 16.8% | 10.4% | 7% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,593 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Grand Saline, 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 2024, 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 Grand Saline: questions
What is the median household income in Grand Saline?
$50,028 (±$13,147) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grand Saline?
18.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grand Saline?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grand Saline work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tyler (7%, 34 mi), Dallas (4%, 62 mi), Canton (3%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Grand Saline walkable?
Grand Saline is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Grand Saline without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grand Saline, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grand Saline
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.