Households in La Grulla have lower incomes than those in 97% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn La Grulla D; getting around on foot earns it C. Below the poverty line: 19.2% of residents, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. Hardly any work in La Grulla itself; outside it, Rio Grande City draws the most (8%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in La Grulla, in a few figures
La Grulla is a place people come home to
There are 6 jobs based in La Grulla, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
41% 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 ↓
Commutes from La Grulla are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 302 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind La Grulla’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, La Grulla is better than 11% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds La Grulla’s grade up (ahead of 43% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($37,308, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (9.0%) is left out: La Grulla’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, La Grulla could be anywhere from D to C−.
The daily flow of workers through La Grulla
On a workday 302 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 940 people are in La Grulla on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.02 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 2024, primary jobs.
The distance from La Grulla to work
About 41% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting to work from La Grulla takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of La Grulla workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 322 commuters (the 20% 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.
Where the trip to work from La Grulla ends
Where La Grulla clocks in
8% 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.
What La Grulla’s employers do
6 jobs are based in La Grulla.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs La Grulla’s own residents hold wherever they work.
La Grulla is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, La Grulla is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 2.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 405 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). 12.0% of La Grulla households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of La Grulla’s commuters take a bus or train.
La Grulla next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 3,922nd of 4,866 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| 27 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,920 | Walton IN | 1,024 | $46K | 20.8% | 4.6% | 2% | D |
| 3,921 | Pleasanton KS | 1,186 | $50K | 11.0% | 6.9% | 8% | D |
| 3,922 | La Grulla TX | 1,234 | $37K | 19.2% | 9.0% | 0% | D |
| 3,923 | McMechen WV | 1,605 | $40K | 27.5% | 7.5% | 2% | D |
| 3,924 | Washburn ME | 1,499 | $56K | 12.7% | 7.4% | 12% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 La Grulla, 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 2024, 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 La Grulla: questions
What is the median household income in La Grulla?
$37,308 (±$23,321) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in La Grulla?
19.2%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from La Grulla?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in La Grulla work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rio Grande City (8%, 13 mi), McAllen (8%, 25 mi), Edinburg (6%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is La Grulla walkable?
La Grulla is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 2.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around La Grulla 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 La Grulla, from the people who make the trip.
More of La Grulla
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.