Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Hubbard have lower incomes than those in 87% of U.S. towns
5% of workers have no commute at all, where Texas as a whole has 14%. 15.4% of residents live below the poverty line, against 13.8% across Texas. The two grades for Hubbard are C− for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Hubbard
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 ↓
Hubbard’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Hubbard is Waco, 30 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (89) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Hubbard workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 41 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 314 hours of commuting, 107 more than the state’s typical 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 634 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Hubbard’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Hubbard is better than 16% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Hubbard’s grade up (ahead of 38% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($50,859, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (6.9%) is left out: Hubbard’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, Hubbard could be anywhere from D to C+.
Near or far: the trip to work from Hubbard
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.
From Hubbard, about 41 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hubbard workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 462 commuters (the 5% 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.
Who commutes out of Hubbard, and who commutes in
On a workday 572 residents head out to work, 62 work right here, and 324 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Hubbard on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.61 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.
Where people from Hubbard work
Where Hubbard clocks in
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.
Jobs in Hubbard: what the 386 are
386 jobs are based in Hubbard.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hubbard, 2013 → 2023: 345 → 386. 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 Hubbard’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Driving is how Hubbard gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hubbard is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% of 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 488 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). 5.1% of Hubbard households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hubbard’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hubbard is 3,996th of 5,397 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 26 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,994 | Ovid MI | 1,498 | $50K | 22.4% | 0.8% | 6% | C− |
| 3,995 | St. Charles MI | 1,941 | $50K | 15.3% | 5.7% | 9% | C− |
| 3,996 | Hubbard TX | 1,507 | $51K | 15.4% | 6.9% | 10% | C− |
| 3,997 | Washington Township IN | 1,477 | $74K | 19.0% | 0.0% | 2% | C− |
| 3,998 | Center-District 1 Township KS | 1,498 | $68K | 13.0% | 0.0% | 13% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,397 | 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 Hubbard, 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 Hubbard: questions
What is the median household income in Hubbard?
$50,859 (±$13,254) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hubbard?
15.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hubbard?
41 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hubbard work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waco (14%, 30 mi), Dallas (6%, 65 mi), Fort Worth (4%, 72 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hubbard walkable?
Hubbard is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 9.5 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hubbard without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hubbard, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hubbard
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.