Photo: Darrylpearson · CC BY-SA 4.0McDade has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Employers in McDade report 116 jobs, against 285 working residents. The two grades for McDade are B− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Measured by household income, McDade is behind 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: McDade in brief
A big share show a job far from home
36% 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 ↓
29% of McDade works in Austin
82 working residents, 29%, have their main job in Austin, 30 miles away. That’s 15 times as many as work in McDade itself. 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; with 285 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind McDade’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, McDade is better than 50% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds McDade’s grade up (6.3%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($50,489, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (2.0%) is left out: McDade’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, McDade could be anywhere from C− to A.
How far it is to work from McDade
About 36% 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.
29% of working residents work in Austin
Where McDade clocks in
29% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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 leaves McDade for work, and who comes in
On a workday 279 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 110 people come in from elsewhere.
About 900 people are in McDade on a workday afternoon, 16% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in McDade
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in McDade, 2013 → 2023: 56 → 116. 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 McDade’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from McDade: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of McDade workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 216 commuters (the 12% 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.
For most of McDade, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, McDade is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 4.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 245 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.4% of McDade households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of McDade’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, McDade is 1,037th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Weston TX | 1,140 | $144K | 2.8% | 0.7% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Randolph AFB TX | 1,240 | $113K | 2.8% | 3.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,035 | Morningside MD | 1,232 | $69K | 21.4% | 4.7% | 2% | B− |
| 1,036 | Florence TX | 1,245 | $79K | 14.7% | 5.0% | 5% | B− |
| 1,037 | McDade TX | 1,070 | $50K | 6.3% | 2.0% | 2% | B− |
| 1,038 | Hagaman NY | 1,119 | $63K | 6.6% | 3.2% | <1% | B− |
| 1,039 | Humboldt Township IL | 1,187 | $86K | 9.7% | 20.1% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 McDade, 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 McDade: questions
What is the median household income in McDade?
$50,489 (±$32,956) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in McDade?
6.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from McDade?
31 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in McDade work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Austin (29%, 30 mi), Bastrop (7%, 12 mi), Elgin (6%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is McDade walkable?
McDade is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around McDade without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from McDade, from the people who make the trip.
More of McDade
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.