Marshall US Post Office · Photo: Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0Marshall has higher unemployment (8.1%) than 88% of U.S. towns
Measured by household income, Marshall is behind 81% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Marshall D; getting around on foot earns it B+. Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, next to 14% for Texas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Marshall
Commutes from Marshall are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
Marshall’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Marshall is Longview, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (1,090) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
35% 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 ↓
Marshall draws workers from far and wide
The 9,071 jobs in Marshall are filled from a wide area. Marshall’s own residents hold 31% and the ten next-biggest home towns 13%; the other 56% come from many towns beyond those. 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.
Jobs & income in Marshall: the grade in detail
Job access by car holds Marshall’s grade up (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (22.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Marshall could be anywhere from D to C.
The daily trip from Marshall: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marshall workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9,450 commuters (the 5% 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.
How far Marshall’s workers travel
About 35% 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.
12% of working residents work in Longview
Where Marshall clocks in
12% 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.
Who commutes out of Marshall, and who commutes in
On a workday 5,979 residents head out to work, 2,783 work right here, and 6,288 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 (1.04 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.
The 9,071 jobs based in Marshall
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marshall, 2013 → 2023: 10,443 → 9,071. 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 Marshall’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting around Marshall: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marshall is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns, #146 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place Marshall 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 9,986 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 Marshall households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Marshall’s commuters take a bus or train.
Marshall and other U.S. towns of 17,000 to 33,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Colleyville TX | 25,727 | $218K | 2.5% | 3.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Corinth TX | 25,297 | $121K | 3.5% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,582 | Rolla MO | 20,588 | $46K | 23.6% | 4.6% | 39% | D |
| 1,583 | Steubenville OH | 17,922 | $48K | 26.6% | 5.3% | 33% | D |
| 1,584 | Marshall TX | 24,467 | $55K | 22.4% | 8.1% | 32% | D |
| 1,585 | Clifton CO | 19,518 | $52K | 15.0% | 8.6% | 5% | D |
| 1,586 | Eagle Pass TX | 28,926 | $57K | 22.0% | 6.7% | 33% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 1,642 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 Marshall, 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 Marshall: questions
What is the median household income in Marshall?
$55,089 (±$9,300) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marshall?
22.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marshall?
17 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marshall work?
32% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Longview (12%, 24 mi), Tyler (4%, 58 mi), Dallas (3%, 142 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Marshall walkable?
Marshall is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marshall 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 Marshall, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marshall
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.