Loving has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Hardly any stay in Loving for work; outside it, Olney is the main destination (29%, 16 miles). Loving has 19 jobs for 56 working residents. 0% of workers work from home; Texas has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Loving
On a workday 56 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 50 people are in Loving on a workday afternoon, 43% 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.
Where Loving goes to work
Where Loving clocks in
29% of workers
9% of workers
7% 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.
Goods, not services: 42% of the jobs in Loving
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Loving, 2013 → 2023: 7 → 19. 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 Loving’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Loving
of Loving workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 40 commuters (the 0% 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 in the region Loving works
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.
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 Loving: questions
What is the median household income in Loving?
$94,545 (±$67,841) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Loving?
18.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Loving work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Olney (29%, 16 mi), Graham (9%, 11 mi), Wichita Falls (7%, 45 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Loving without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Loving, from the people who make the trip.
More of Loving
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.