Loving County Courthouse · Photo: Lothar the Terrible · Public domainWhere Mentone earns its living
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, against 14% across Texas. Hardly any work in Mentone itself; outside it, Hobbs draws the most (11%, 75 miles). Mentone has 35 jobs; 45 of its residents have a job.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mentone by day and by night
On a workday 45 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 35 people come in from elsewhere.
About 0 people are in Mentone on a workday afternoon, 100% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 per resident).
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 people from Mentone work
Where Mentone clocks in
11% of workers
9% 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 Mentone’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mentone, 2013 → 2023: 11 → 35. 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 Mentone’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Mentone
of Mentone workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7 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.
The commute from Mentone, by distance
About 90% 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.
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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Mentone workers work outside Texas. The job records count 22% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Mentone: questions
What is the poverty rate in Mentone?
0.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Mentone work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hobbs (11%, 75 mi), Midland (9%, 90 mi), El Paso (7%, 167 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mentone 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 Mentone, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mentone
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.