Household incomes in Hamshire top those of 79% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 2% of workers, where Texas as a whole has 14%. Poverty touches 3.2% of residents, against 13.8% across Texas. Hamshire grades A− for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hamshire at work: what stands out
Hamshire and Beaumont trade workers both ways
Beaumont is the top workplace for Hamshire residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Hamshire come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Hamshire workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Hamshire are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
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 313 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Hamshire’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Hamshire is better than 81% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Hamshire’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 43% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Hamshire’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, Hamshire could be anywhere from B− to A.
25% of working residents work in Beaumont
Where Hamshire clocks in
25% of workers
11% of workers
9% 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 21 minutes each way for Hamshire’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hamshire workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 757 commuters (the 2% 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 many people are in Hamshire by day
On a workday 304 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 452 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Hamshire on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.47 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.
Most jobs in Hamshire are in services
461 jobs are based in Hamshire.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hamshire, 2013 → 2023: 285 → 461. 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 Hamshire’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Hamshire’s workers travel
About 27% 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.
For most of Hamshire, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hamshire is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Hamshire near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 769 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). 7.4% of Hamshire households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hamshire’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Hamshire ranks: 554th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 31 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 552 | Newark WI | 1,516 | $96K | 4.5% | 4.1% | 2% | A− |
| 553 | Mitchell IL | 1,092 | $60K | 1.8% | 1.9% | 0% | A− |
| 554 | Hamshire TX | 1,388 | $103K | 3.2% | 0.0% | 3% | A− |
| 555 | Barbourmeade KY | 1,241 | $117K | 12.0% | 5.8% | 0% | A− |
| 556 | Eagle NE | 1,206 | $77K | 2.4% | 3.2% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Hamshire, 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 Hamshire: questions
What is the median household income in Hamshire?
$102,800 (±$38,969) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hamshire?
3.2%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hamshire?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hamshire work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Beaumont (25%, 19 mi), Houston (11%, 64 mi), Port Arthur (9%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hamshire walkable?
Hamshire is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hamshire without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hamshire, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hamshire
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.