Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Hallsville works elsewhere
Only 3% work in Hallsville itself; outside it, Longview draws the most (36%, 11 miles). Employers in Hallsville report 659 jobs for 1,880 working residents. The two grades for Hallsville are B+ for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Hallsville
Commutes from Hallsville are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 84 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
36% of Hallsville works in Longview
668 working residents, 36%, have their main job in Longview, 11 miles away. That’s 12 times as many as work in Hallsville itself. The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
The figures behind Hallsville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hallsville is better than 74% of U.S. towns, #175 of 642 in Texas. The poverty rate is its strongest input (5.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 53% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hallsville could be anywhere from C to A+.
About 16 minutes each way for Hallsville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hallsville workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,342 commuters (the 11% 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.
Commuting out of Hallsville: the destinations
Where Hallsville clocks in
36% of workers
4% 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.
Who leaves Hallsville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,827 residents head out to work, 53 work right here, and 606 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,700 people are in Hallsville on a workday afternoon, 25% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Making and building: 31% of jobs based in Hallsville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hallsville, 2014 → 2024: 846 → 659. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hallsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Hallsville
About 26% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Hallsville, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hallsville is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns, #593 of 642 in Texas. 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 2,642 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). 1.2% of Hallsville households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hallsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Hallsville is 1,068th among 3,840 U.S. towns of 3,400 to 6,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 8 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Garden Ridge TX | 4,371 | $177K | 0.4% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,066 | Shrewsbury MO | 6,231 | $81K | 10.0% | 3.4% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,067 | Orange OH | 3,574 | $170K | 16.0% | 4.1% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,068 | Hallsville TX | 4,895 | $85K | 5.7% | 2.8% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,069 | Irving Township MI | 3,836 | $76K | 2.4% | 2.3% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,070 | Kawkawlin Township MI | 4,349 | $85K | 8.0% | 1.8% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,840 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Hallsville, 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 2024, 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 Hallsville: questions
What is the median household income in Hallsville?
$85,313 (±$29,612) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hallsville?
5.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hallsville?
16 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hallsville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Longview (36%, 11 mi), Marshall (5%, 13 mi), Kilgore (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hallsville walkable?
Hallsville is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hallsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hallsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hallsville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.