Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Work, pay and getting to work in Guthrie
The trip to work takes 7 minutes on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 14% across Texas. About one in five work in Guthrie; the top destination outside it is Lubbock (23%, 90 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Guthrie: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 75 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 40 people come in from elsewhere.
About 120 people are in Guthrie on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.62 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.
Out of Guthrie to work: where people go
Where Guthrie clocks in
9% of workers
7% 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.
54% of the jobs in Guthrie make or build things
56 jobs are based in Guthrie.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Guthrie, 2013 → 2023: 22 → 56. 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 Guthrie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Guthrie: about 7 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Guthrie workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 60 commuters (the 0% 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 Guthrie goes to work
About 76% 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.
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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Guthrie workers work outside Texas. The job records count 13% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Guthrie: questions
What is the median household income in Guthrie?
$45,855 (±$26,089) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Guthrie?
32.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Guthrie?
7 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Guthrie work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lubbock (23%, 90 mi), Clovis (9%, 174 mi), Amarillo (7%, 139 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Guthrie without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Guthrie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Guthrie
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.