Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0There are 3.2 jobs in Hemphill for every working resident, and 936 people commute in
There are 1,010 jobs in Hemphill, and 315 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Hemphill is better than 12% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (C). About one in four work in Hemphill itself; outside it, Houston draws the most (6%, 141 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Hemphill apart
Hemphill has far more jobs than workers
Hemphill has 1,010 jobs, 3.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,700 people are in town, 68% more than the 1,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
48% 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 ↓
Hemphill has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Hemphill went from 568 in 2013 to 1,010 in 2023, +78%. 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 315 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Inside Hemphill’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Hemphill’s grade up ($67,260, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (11.3%) is left out: Hemphill’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Hemphill could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Who commutes out of Hemphill, and who commutes in
On a workday 241 residents head out to work and 74 work right here.
About 1,700 people are in Hemphill on a workday afternoon, 68% more than live here.
3.2 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.
Miles to work from Hemphill
About 48% 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.
The kinds of work in Hemphill
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hemphill, 2013 → 2023: 568 → 1,010. 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 Hemphill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Hemphill’s workers come from
Where Hemphill clocks in
6% of workers
4% 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.
The daily trip from Hemphill: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hemphill workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 476 commuters (the 7% 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.
Driving is how Hemphill gets around
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 513 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). 6.0% of Hemphill households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hemphill’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Hemphill is 2,434th among 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Weston TX | 1,140 | $144K | 2.8% | 0.7% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Randolph AFB TX | 1,240 | $113K | 2.8% | 3.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,432 | Princeton WI | 1,249 | $54K | 16.8% | 5.5% | 5% | D |
| 2,433 | Campbell Township IN | 1,119 | $72K | 22.9% | 2.6% | 1% | D |
| 2,434 | Hemphill TX | 1,027 | $67K | 16.6% | 11.3% | 23% | D |
| 2,435 | Sherman Township MI | 1,128 | $76K | 22.1% | 5.4% | 2% | D |
| 2,436 | Edinburg NY | 1,339 | $70K | 17.8% | 4.9% | 7% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Hemphill, 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 Hemphill: questions
What is the median household income in Hemphill?
$67,260 (±$16,438) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hemphill?
16.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hemphill?
22 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hemphill work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (6%, 141 mi), Jasper (4%, 30 mi), Lufkin (4%, 52 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hemphill walkable?
Hemphill 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 Hemphill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hemphill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hemphill
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.