Household incomes in Gregory trail those of 91% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 39.2% of residents, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. For jobs and income Gregory is better than 18% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (B). Only 3% stay in Gregory for work; outside it, Corpus Christi is the main destination (25%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Gregory
Gregory makes and builds things
77% of the jobs based in Gregory are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Gregory residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 21%. The jobs ↓
Gregory is where the jobs are
Gregory has 1,168 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Gregory and Corpus Christi trade workers both ways
Corpus Christi is the top workplace for Gregory residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Gregory come from (32% of its jobs). 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; with 545 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Gregory’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Job access by car holds Gregory’s grade up (ahead of 71% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (5.2%) is left out: Gregory’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Gregory could be anywhere from D to C+.
Making and building: 77% of jobs based in Gregory
1,168 jobs are based in Gregory.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gregory, 2013 → 2023: 286 → 1,168. 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 Gregory’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Gregory for work, and who comes in
On a workday 526 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 1,149 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Gregory on a workday afternoon, 36% more than live here.
2.1 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.
Where Gregory’s workforce comes from
Where Gregory clocks in
25% 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.
About 16 minutes each way, quicker than most of Texas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gregory workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 644 commuters (the 15% 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 Gregory
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Gregory, the car does most of the work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.4% 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 761 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 62% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.6% of Gregory households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Gregory’s commuters take a bus or train.
Gregory is 4,202nd of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 26 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,200 | Williamsport MD | 2,112 | $62K | 23.3% | 11.9% | 2% | C− |
| 4,201 | Somerset OH | 1,482 | $55K | 17.6% | 5.2% | 4% | C− |
| 4,202 | Gregory TX | 1,708 | $47K | 39.2% | 5.2% | 3% | C− |
| 4,203 | Clinton Township IN | 1,292 | $48K | 8.8% | 7.4% | 1% | C− |
| 4,204 | Hartley Township PA | 1,717 | $67K | 15.2% | 0.7% | 5% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Gregory, 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 Gregory: questions
What is the median household income in Gregory?
$47,167 (±$22,588) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gregory?
39.2%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gregory?
16 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gregory work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corpus Christi (25%, 14 mi), Portland (9%, 3 mi), San Antonio (6%, 130 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gregory walkable?
Gregory is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gregory without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gregory, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gregory
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.