Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs, income and commuting in Grandview, TX
Grandview grades B+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Home is the office for 6% of workers (Texas 14%). Only 4% work in Grandview itself; outside it, Fort Worth draws the most (17%, 37 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Grandview, in brief
Grandview’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Grandview is Fort Worth, 37 miles away as the crow flies. 17% of working residents (159) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Jobs in Grandview have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Grandview went from 357 in 2013 to 764 in 2023, +114%. The jobs ↓
Grandview makes and builds things
60% of the jobs based in Grandview are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Grandview residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. 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 909 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How Grandview earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Grandview is better than 68% of U.S. towns. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 67% of U.S. towns); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($77,000, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
Unemployment (0.5%) is left out: Grandview’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, Grandview could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Half of Grandview commutes less than 32 miles
About 20% 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.
A place that makes things: 60% of Grandview’s jobs are in goods
764 jobs are based in Grandview.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grandview, 2013 → 2023: 357 → 764. 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 Grandview’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Grandview by day
On a workday 875 residents head out to work, 34 work right here, and 730 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 (0.84 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 Grandview work
Where Grandview clocks in
17% of workers
8% 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 31 minutes in Grandview
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grandview workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 901 commuters (the 6% 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.
Driving is how Grandview gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Grandview is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns. 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 956 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). 8.3% of Grandview households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Grandview’s commuters take a bus or train.
Grandview next to U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,800: 1,200th of 5,148 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Southside Place TX | 1,916 | $163K | 5.0% | 5.4% | 2% | A+ |
| 23 | Shoreacres TX | 1,535 | $131K | 3.2% | 2.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,198 | Philo Township IL | 1,844 | $113K | 6.8% | 4.7% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,199 | Franklin Township IN | 1,821 | $85K | 6.6% | 2.6% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,200 | Grandview TX | 2,090 | $77K | 7.1% | 0.5% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,201 | Shiawassee Township MI | 2,726 | $78K | 10.1% | 1.6% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,202 | Monkton VT | 2,207 | $120K | 4.2% | 4.5% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,148 | 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 Grandview, 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 Grandview: questions
What is the median household income in Grandview?
$77,000 (±$27,892) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grandview?
7.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grandview?
31 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grandview work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Worth (17%, 37 mi), Cleburne (8%, 15 mi), Dallas (7%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Grandview walkable?
Grandview is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Grandview without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grandview, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grandview
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.