Photo: Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0At 0.6%, unemployment in Lindale is lower than in 97% of U.S. towns
About one in ten work in Lindale itself; outside it, Tyler draws the most (32%, 14 miles). Lindale grades A− for jobs and income and A− for walkability. The average commute, 27 minutes each way, matches the Texas norm.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Lindale apart
Stores, warehouses and trucking
54% of the jobs in Lindale are in trade, transport and utilities, against 21% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Lindale and Tyler trade workers both ways
Tyler is the top workplace for Lindale residents (32%) and also where the most people who work in Lindale come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Lindale
56% of Lindale residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 33% of the jobs based in Lindale pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 91% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
36% of the jobs based in Lindale are held by workers 29 or younger, against 23% of Lindale’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
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 Lindale’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lindale is better than 85% of U.S. towns, #125 of 642 in Texas. Unemployment is its strongest input; job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 55% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lindale could be anywhere from B+ to A.
The kinds of work in Lindale
3,474 jobs are based in Lindale.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lindale, 2013 → 2023: 2,612 → 3,474. 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 Lindale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where people from Lindale work
Where Lindale clocks in
32% of workers
3% 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 and out of Lindale on a workday
On a workday 2,196 residents head out to work, 219 work right here, and 3,255 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,400 people are in Lindale on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.44 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.
About 27 minutes each way for Lindale’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lindale workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,622 commuters (the 9% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Lindale
About 27% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Lindale
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lindale is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns, #70 of 642 in Texas. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 7.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,893 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). 2.9% of Lindale households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 5% of Lindale’s commuters take a bus or train.
618th of 3,083: where Lindale ranks among U.S. towns of 5,200 to 10,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Alamo Heights TX | 7,632 | $183K | 2.5% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 616 | Sioux Center IA | 8,864 | $93K | 2.2% | 1.2% | 50% | A |
| 617 | Harwinton CT | 5,751 | $130K | 4.8% | 4.0% | 4% | A |
| 618 | Lindale TX | 7,385 | $83K | 4.6% | 0.6% | 9% | A− |
| 619 | Wamego Township KS | 5,838 | $103K | 4.1% | 1.3% | 26% | A− |
| 620 | Countryside VA | 9,661 | $149K | 4.8% | 5.8% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,083 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Lindale, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Around Lindale: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Lindale’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Lindale: questions
What is the median household income in Lindale?
$83,249 (±$13,779) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lindale?
4.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lindale?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lindale work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tyler (32%, 14 mi), Dallas (3%, 82 mi), Mineola (3%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lindale walkable?
Lindale is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lindale without a car?
5% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lindale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lindale
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.