Johnston, Joseph E., Confederate Reunion Grounds · Photo: TxHC. Original uploader was TxHC at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Mexia are lower than in 95% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Mexia D; getting around on foot earns it B+. Poverty touches 32.3% of residents, next to 13.8% for Texas as a whole. Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers, where Texas as a whole has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mexia and work: the main findings
A big share show a job far from home
51% 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 ↓
Mexia trades workers with the towns around it
Mexia has about as many jobs (2,878) as working residents (3,191), but they are mostly different people: 2,425 residents leave for work each day while 2,112 people come in. Only 27% of the jobs in Mexia are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Mexia are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
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.
Inside Mexia’s Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Mexia’s grade up (3.3%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mexia could be anywhere from D to C.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Mexia
About 51% 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.
How many people are in Mexia by day
On a workday 2,425 residents head out to work, 766 work right here, and 2,112 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 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.
About 20 minutes each way for Mexia’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mexia workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,497 commuters (the 6% 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.
7% of working residents work in Dallas
Where Mexia clocks in
4% 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.
Jobs in Mexia: what the 2,878 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mexia, 2013 → 2023: 3,539 → 2,878. 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 Mexia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Driving is how Mexia gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mexia is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns, #103 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place Mexia near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,658 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). 6.4% of Mexia households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mexia’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,164 U.S. towns of 5,000 to 9,600, Mexia comes 2,840th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Alamo Heights TX | 7,632 | $183K | 2.5% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,838 | Farmington ME | 8,258 | $54K | 15.4% | 5.2% | 26% | D |
| 2,839 | Mila Doce TX | 7,731 | $51K | 32.0% | 8.9% | 1% | D |
| 2,840 | Mexia TX | 7,091 | $42K | 32.3% | 3.3% | 24% | D |
| 2,841 | Springfield VT | 8,881 | $67K | 14.8% | 8.2% | 32% | D |
| 2,842 | Rayne LA | 6,995 | $42K | 25.5% | 7.2% | 11% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,164 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Mexia, 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 Mexia: questions
What is the median household income in Mexia?
$42,222 (±$13,056) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mexia?
32.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mexia?
20 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mexia work?
24% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dallas (7%, 79 mi), Waco (6%, 42 mi), Groesbeck (4%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mexia walkable?
Mexia is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mexia without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mexia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mexia
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.