Photo: Liveon001 ©Travis Witt · CC BY-SA 3.0Martindale has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
For jobs and income Martindale is better than 55% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (D). 174 jobs are based in Martindale, and 474 of its residents work somewhere. At home: 5% of workers have no commute at all (Texas 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Martindale at work: what stands out
Inside Martindale’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Martindale’s grade up (ahead of 73% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.4%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (4.0%) is left out: Martindale’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, Martindale could be anywhere from C to A−.
26% of working residents work in San Marcos
Where Martindale clocks in
26% of workers
18% of workers
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 daily flow of workers through Martindale
On a workday 466 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 166 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Martindale on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
33% of the jobs in Martindale make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Martindale, 2013 → 2023: 124 → 174. 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 Martindale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes each way, about the TX average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Martindale workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 562 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.
Martindale’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Getting around Martindale: mostly by car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 594 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). 1.2% of Martindale households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Martindale’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Martindale is 1,611th among 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 30 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,609 | Pandora OH | 1,149 | $65K | 2.9% | 1.8% | 9% | B |
| 1,610 | Duboistown PA | 1,184 | $82K | 11.7% | 3.1% | 1% | B |
| 1,611 | Martindale TX | 1,298 | $78K | 13.4% | 4.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,612 | Gholson TX | 1,274 | $78K | 7.4% | 3.7% | 1% | B |
| 1,613 | Petersham MA | 1,242 | $111K | 8.8% | 4.3% | 7% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Martindale, 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 Martindale: questions
What is the median household income in Martindale?
$77,500 (±$15,764) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Martindale?
13.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Martindale?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Martindale work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Marcos (26%, 6 mi), Austin (18%, 32 mi), Houston (5%, 147 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Martindale walkable?
Martindale is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Martindale without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Martindale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Martindale
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.