Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Italy has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
418 jobs are based in Italy for 942 working residents. The two grades for Italy are C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. 5% of workers have no commute at all, against 14% across Texas.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Italy
The figures behind Italy’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Italy is better than 37% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Italy’s grade up (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($60,754, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (5.1%) is left out: Italy’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, Italy could be anywhere from C− to B.
The distance from Italy to work
About 32% 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.
Italy by day and by night
On a workday 899 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 375 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Italy on a workday afternoon, 24% 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 2023, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Waxahachie
Where Italy clocks in
13% of workers
6% 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 kinds of work in Italy
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Italy, 2013 → 2023: 376 → 418. 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 Italy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Italy takes about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Italy workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 885 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.
Italy is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Italy is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 932 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). 5.3% of Italy households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Italy’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,993rd of 5,404: where Italy ranks among U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Southside Place TX | 1,916 | $163K | 5.0% | 5.4% | 2% | A+ |
| 24 | Shoreacres TX | 1,535 | $131K | 3.2% | 2.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,991 | Thornton IL | 2,299 | $60K | 15.1% | 7.0% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,992 | Milford IN | 1,686 | $52K | 9.4% | 1.7% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,993 | Italy TX | 2,140 | $61K | 11.1% | 5.1% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,994 | Franklin Township IN | 1,679 | $85K | 13.3% | 0.4% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,995 | Center Township IN | 2,603 | $63K | 6.7% | 4.8% | 9% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Italy, 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 Italy: questions
What is the median household income in Italy?
$60,754 (±$5,085) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Italy?
11.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Italy?
30 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Italy work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waxahachie (13%, 15 mi), Dallas (12%, 42 mi), Fort Worth (6%, 49 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Italy walkable?
Italy is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Italy 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 Italy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Italy
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.