Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Mart has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
There are 230 jobs in Mart, against 766 working residents. Jobs and income earn Mart C; getting around on foot earns it C+. Only 7% work in Mart itself; outside it, Waco draws the most (32%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Mart in brief
Mart and Waco trade workers both ways
Waco is the top workplace for Mart residents (32%) and also where the most people who work in Mart come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% 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 ↓
Mart is a place people come home to
There are 230 jobs based in Mart, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mart has about 1,300 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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; with 766 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Mart’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Mart is better than 28% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Mart’s grade up (ahead of 45% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (14.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (8.4%) is left out: Mart’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Mart could be anywhere from D to B.
Where the trip to work from Mart ends
Where Mart clocks in
5% 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.
The commute from Mart, by distance
About 38% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Mart
On a workday 712 residents head out to work, 54 work right here, and 176 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Mart on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
The kinds of work in Mart
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mart, 2013 → 2023: 249 → 230. 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 Mart’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 33 minutes in Mart
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mart workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 651 commuters (the 7% 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.
In Mart, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mart is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Mart 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 700 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). 9.1% of Mart households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mart’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mart is 3,533rd of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 25 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,531 | Ledyard NY | 1,350 | $87K | 14.9% | 5.6% | 20% | C |
| 3,532 | Snow Shoe Township PA | 1,570 | $66K | 8.9% | 3.3% | 6% | C |
| 3,533 | Mart TX | 1,847 | $63K | 14.7% | 8.4% | 7% | C |
| 3,534 | Osseo WI | 1,842 | $60K | 13.1% | 0.8% | 20% | C |
| 3,535 | Tippecanoe Township IN | 2,472 | $61K | 14.5% | 4.5% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Mart, 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 Mart: questions
What is the median household income in Mart?
$62,917 (±$15,928) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mart?
14.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mart?
33 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mart work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waco (32%, 21 mi), Austin (5%, 102 mi), Dallas (3%, 87 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mart walkable?
Mart is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mart without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mart, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mart
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.