Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0More people are out of work in Jacksboro (11.9%) than in 97% of U.S. towns
Jacksboro grades D− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns. About one in four work in Jacksboro itself; outside it, Fort Worth draws the most (7%, 56 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Jacksboro stands out on work
Inside Jacksboro’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Jacksboro is better than 4% of U.S. towns, #630 of 642 in Texas. Household income holds Jacksboro’s grade up ($55,040, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Jacksboro could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Short hops and long hauls from Jacksboro
About 45% 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.
Jacksboro on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,461 residents head out to work, 441 work right here, and 791 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,100 people are in Jacksboro on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.65 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 Jacksboro’s working residents head each day
Where Jacksboro clocks in
7% of workers
3% of workers
2% 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.
What work there is in Jacksboro: 1,232 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jacksboro, 2013 → 2023: 1,457 → 1,232. 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 Jacksboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Jacksboro
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jacksboro workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,234 commuters (the 8% 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.
Getting around Jacksboro: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Jacksboro is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns, #501 of 642 in Texas. 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 1,337 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). 20.3% of Jacksboro households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Jacksboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Jacksboro and other U.S. towns of 3,300 to 6,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 8 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Garden Ridge TX | 4,371 | $177K | 0.4% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,767 | Paoli IN | 3,596 | $43K | 25.2% | 7.8% | 18% | D− |
| 3,768 | Corry PA | 5,993 | $49K | 25.9% | 9.8% | 44% | D− |
| 3,769 | Jacksboro TX | 4,735 | $55K | 21.8% | 11.9% | 23% | D− |
| 3,770 | Green Township OH | 3,659 | $48K | 49.4% | 10.3% | 7% | D− |
| 3,771 | Farmerville LA | 3,432 | $26K | 42.3% | 9.0% | 23% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,867 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Jacksboro, 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 Jacksboro: questions
What is the median household income in Jacksboro?
$55,040 (±$18,836) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jacksboro?
21.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jacksboro?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jacksboro work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Worth (7%, 56 mi), Graham (3%, 26 mi), Wichita Falls (2%, 51 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Jacksboro walkable?
Jacksboro is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Jacksboro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 20% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jacksboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jacksboro
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.