Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Households in Jourdanton have higher incomes than those in 60% of U.S. towns
14.9% of residents are in poverty, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. The two grades for Jourdanton are C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. About one in seven stay in Jourdanton for work; outside it, San Antonio is the main destination (28%, 38 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Jourdanton apart on work
Jourdanton trades workers with the towns around it
Jourdanton has about as many jobs (2,163) as working residents (1,933), but they are mostly different people: 1,687 residents leave for work each day while 1,917 people come in. Only 11% of the jobs in Jourdanton are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Jourdanton are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
28% of Jourdanton works in San Antonio
537 working residents, 28%, have their main job in San Antonio, 38 miles away. That’s twice as many as work in Jourdanton itself. The commute map ↓
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.
The figures behind Jourdanton’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Jourdanton is better than 44% of U.S. towns, #326 of 642 in Texas. Household income holds Jourdanton’s grade up ($83,512, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Jourdanton could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Who works in Jourdanton, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,687 residents head out to work, 246 work right here, and 1,917 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.12 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Getting to work from Jourdanton takes about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jourdanton workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,818 commuters (the 10% 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.
Out of Jourdanton to work: where people go
Where Jourdanton clocks in
28% of workers
9% 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.
In Jourdanton, 31% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
2,163 jobs are based in Jourdanton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jourdanton, 2013 → 2023: 2,189 → 2,163. 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 Jourdanton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Jourdanton, by distance
About 31% 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.
Driving is how Jourdanton gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Jourdanton is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns, #282 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place Jourdanton near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,027 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). 12.2% of Jourdanton households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Jourdanton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Jourdanton next to U.S. towns of 3,300 to 6,400: 2,292nd of 3,867 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,290 | Danbury Township OH | 4,859 | $76K | 6.2% | 6.0% | 19% | C+ |
| 2,291 | Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) AZ | 6,356 | $81K | 11.9% | 2.6% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,292 | Jourdanton TX | 4,751 | $84K | 14.9% | 4.3% | 13% | C+ |
| 2,293 | Johnson Township IN | 3,787 | $71K | 10.6% | 2.9% | 16% | C+ |
| 2,294 | Corning NY | 5,734 | $88K | 8.2% | 8.1% | 12% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Jourdanton, 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 Jourdanton: questions
What is the median household income in Jourdanton?
$83,512 (±$14,344) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jourdanton?
14.9%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jourdanton?
18 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jourdanton work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Antonio (28%, 38 mi), Pleasanton (9%, 4 mi), Austin (4%, 107 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Jourdanton walkable?
Jourdanton is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Jourdanton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jourdanton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jourdanton
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.