Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0How Maypearl works: jobs, income and commuting
There are 379 jobs in Maypearl for 657 working residents. Only 4% work in Maypearl itself; outside it, Dallas draws the most (16%, 36 miles). The trip to work takes 39 minutes on average, next to 27 for Texas and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Maypearl at work: what stands out
Maypearl’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Maypearl is Dallas, 36 miles away as the crow flies. 16% of working residents (108) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Maypearl workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 39 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 299 hours of commuting, 92 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Maypearl
71% of Maypearl residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 51% of the jobs based in Maypearl pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 96% leave town for their job. 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; with 657 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where in the region Maypearl works
About 18% 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.
From Maypearl, about 39 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Maypearl workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 402 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.
Services make up most of the work in Maypearl
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Maypearl, 2013 → 2023: 291 → 379. 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 Maypearl’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Maypearl on a workday afternoon
On a workday 631 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 353 people come in from elsewhere.
About 690 people are in Maypearl on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.
0.58 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 Maypearl’s working residents head each day
Where Maypearl clocks in
7% 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.
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 Maypearl: questions
What is the median household income in Maypearl?
$69,550 (±$11,150) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Maypearl?
1.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Maypearl?
39 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Maypearl work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dallas (16%, 36 mi), Midlothian (7%, 11 mi), Arlington (7%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Maypearl 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 Maypearl, from the people who make the trip.
More of Maypearl
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.