More than half of Grape Creek’s working residents commute to San Angelo
Measured by household income, Grape Creek is behind 84% of U.S. towns. For jobs and income Grape Creek is better than 30% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (C−). Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers, 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
What stands out about work in Grape Creek
More than half of Grape Creek works in San Angelo
751 working residents, 52%, have their main job in San Angelo, 11 miles away. That’s 6 times as many as work in Grape Creek itself. The commute map ↓
Few Grape Creek workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% 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.
Jobs & income in Grape Creek: the grade in detail
Unemployment holds Grape Creek’s grade up (2.0%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (26.9%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Grape Creek could be anywhere from D to B.
The towns that employ Grape Creek’s residents
Where Grape Creek clocks in
2% of workers
2% 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.
Each way, about 29 minutes from Grape Creek
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grape Creek workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,519 commuters (the 4% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Grape Creek
About 30% 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.
Grape Creek by day and by night
On a workday 1,333 residents head out to work, 125 work right here, and 362 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,100 people are in Grape Creek on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.33 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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 work there is in Grape Creek: 487 jobs
487 jobs are based in Grape Creek.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grape Creek, 2013 → 2023: 500 → 487. 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 Grape Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Driving is how Grape Creek gets around
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,576 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). 3.3% of Grape Creek households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Grape Creek’s commuters take a bus or train.
Grape Creek next to U.S. towns of 2,800 to 5,400: 3,023rd of 4,177 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| 4 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 5 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,021 | Conneaut Township PA | 3,824 | $71K | 11.5% | 7.0% | 4% | C |
| 3,022 | Boulder Creek CA | 4,632 | $84K | 7.1% | 12.1% | 6% | C |
| 3,023 | Grape Creek TX | 4,036 | $53K | 26.9% | 2.0% | 9% | C |
| 3,024 | Slatington PA | 4,296 | $50K | 25.8% | 4.1% | 4% | C |
| 3,025 | Foster Township PA | 3,555 | $68K | 10.5% | 9.4% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,177 | 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 Grape Creek, 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 Grape Creek: questions
What is the median household income in Grape Creek?
$53,299 (±$14,283) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grape Creek?
26.9%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grape Creek?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grape Creek work?
9% work in town.
Is Grape Creek walkable?
Grape Creek is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Grape Creek without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grape Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grape Creek
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.