Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0McCamey has lower household incomes than 94% of U.S. towns
17.1% of residents live below the poverty line (Texas 13.8%). McCamey grades D− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. 0% of workers work from home, where Texas as a whole has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
McCamey and work: the main findings
McCamey has far more jobs than workers
McCamey has 1,886 jobs, 3.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,100 people are in town, 79% more than the 1,700 who live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
60% 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 ↓
McCamey’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside McCamey is Odessa, 52 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (45) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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 515 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How McCamey earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, McCamey is better than 3% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds McCamey’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.2%) is left out: McCamey’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, McCamey could be anywhere from D− to C−.
The workday shuffle in and out of McCamey
On a workday 420 residents head out to work, 95 work right here, and 1,791 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,100 people are in McCamey on a workday afternoon, 79% more than live here.
3.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
How many miles McCamey commutes
About 60% 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 trip into McCamey
Where McCamey clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
Making and building: 77% of jobs based in McCamey
1,886 jobs are based in McCamey.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in McCamey, 2013 → 2023: 475 → 1,886. 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 McCamey’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 32 minutes each way for McCamey’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of McCamey workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 654 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.
Getting around McCamey: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, McCamey is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns. 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 654 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). 3.1% of McCamey households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of McCamey’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400, and where McCamey sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 27 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,778 | Biscoe NC | 1,887 | $45K | 34.9% | 3.1% | 9% | D− |
| 5,779 | Shamrock TX | 1,692 | $47K | 19.3% | 5.7% | 31% | D− |
| 5,780 | McCamey TX | 1,743 | $43K | 17.1% | 1.2% | 18% | D− |
| 5,781 | Corrigan TX | 1,358 | $38K | 30.6% | 16.7% | 19% | D− |
| 5,782 | Gretna VA | 1,280 | $34K | 42.2% | 3.8% | 9% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | 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 McCamey, 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 McCamey: questions
What is the median household income in McCamey?
$43,203 (±$20,441) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in McCamey?
17.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from McCamey?
32 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in McCamey work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Odessa (9%, 52 mi), Midland (8%, 62 mi), Lubbock (3%, 169 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is McCamey walkable?
McCamey is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 9.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around McCamey without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from McCamey, from the people who make the trip.
More of McCamey
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.