Photo: Hot Furnace · CC BY 4.0There are 1.9 jobs in Hawkins for every working resident, and 863 people commute in
For 0% of workers, the job is at home (Texas 14%). There are 896 jobs in Hawkins for 471 working residents. Hawkins grades C+ for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hawkins at work: what stands out
Hawkins is where the jobs are
Hawkins has 896 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Hawkins has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Hawkins went from 489 in 2013 to 896 in 2023, +83%. The jobs ↓
Hawkins makes and builds things
49% of the jobs based in Hawkins are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Hawkins residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 19%. The jobs ↓
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 471 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Hawkins’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Hawkins is better than 39% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Hawkins’ grade.
Unemployment (4.4%) is left out: Hawkins’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, Hawkins could be anywhere from C− to B.
The daily commute in and out of Hawkins
On a workday 438 residents head out to work and 33 work right here.
About 2,300 people are in Hawkins on a workday afternoon, 23% more than live here.
1.9 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.
Hawkins makes things: 49% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hawkins, 2013 → 2023: 489 → 896. 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 Hawkins’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Hawkins’ workforce comes from
Where Hawkins clocks in
16% 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.
Getting to work from Hawkins takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hawkins workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 881 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Hawkins
About 34% 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.
Few in Hawkins walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hawkins is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns. 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 881 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). 3.3% of Hawkins households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hawkins’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Hawkins is 2,882nd of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 25 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,880 | Stewartville AL | 1,629 | $88K | 11.0% | 6.2% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,881 | Bottineau ND | 2,152 | $66K | 12.0% | 1.7% | 42% | C+ |
| 2,882 | Hawkins TX | 1,862 | $72K | 13.3% | 4.4% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,883 | Carlisle NY | 1,760 | $87K | 9.6% | 5.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,884 | Tusten NY | 1,436 | $76K | 6.4% | 9.8% | 11% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | 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 Hawkins, 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 Hawkins: questions
What is the median household income in Hawkins?
$72,404 (±$14,370) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hawkins?
13.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hawkins?
22 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hawkins work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tyler (16%, 20 mi), Longview (7%, 26 mi), Dallas (3%, 92 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hawkins walkable?
Hawkins is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hawkins 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 Hawkins, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hawkins
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.