Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer people are out of work in Groesbeck (2.0%) than in 85% of U.S. towns
Measured by household income, Groesbeck is behind 71% of U.S. towns. Groesbeck grades B− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. About one in five stay in Groesbeck for work; outside it, Mexia is the main destination (9%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Groesbeck: the figures worth knowing
Groesbeck trades workers with the towns around it
Groesbeck has about as many jobs (1,441) as working residents (1,426), but they are mostly different people: 1,169 residents leave for work each day while 1,184 people come in. Only 18% of the jobs in Groesbeck are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Groesbeck workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 37 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 284 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
47% 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.
Where Groesbeck’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Groesbeck is better than 50% of U.S. towns, #295 of 642 in Texas. Unemployment holds Groesbeck’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 19% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Groesbeck could be anywhere from C to B+.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 1,169 residents head out to work, 257 work right here, and 1,184 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 (1.01 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.
From Groesbeck, about 37 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Groesbeck workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,368 commuters (the 12% 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.
How far Groesbeck’s workers travel
About 47% 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.
Where Groesbeck goes to work
Where Groesbeck clocks in
Lines 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.
The 1,441 jobs based in Groesbeck
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Groesbeck, 2013 → 2023: 1,868 → 1,441. 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 Groesbeck’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Groesbeck is a driving town
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 7.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,555 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). 3.4% of Groesbeck households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Groesbeck’s commuters take a bus or train.
Groesbeck is 2,169th of 4,177 U.S. towns of 2,800 to 5,400 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,167 | Paulden AZ | 4,795 | $92K | 12.3% | 1.5% | 1% | B− |
| 2,168 | Avalon PA | 4,572 | $51K | 14.6% | 3.2% | 3% | B− |
| 2,169 | Groesbeck TX | 3,995 | $62K | 7.2% | 2.0% | 18% | B− |
| 2,170 | Lenox MA | 5,059 | $106K | 8.5% | 6.2% | 21% | B− |
| 2,171 | Pokegama Township MN | 2,884 | $78K | 8.7% | 2.7% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Groesbeck, 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 Groesbeck: questions
What is the median household income in Groesbeck?
$61,571 (±$1,518) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Groesbeck?
7.2%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Groesbeck?
37 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Groesbeck work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mexia (9%, 11 mi), Waco (8%, 39 mi), Dallas (5%, 89 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Groesbeck walkable?
Groesbeck is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Groesbeck 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 Groesbeck, from the people who make the trip.
More of Groesbeck
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.