Unemployment in Mila Doce (8.9%) is higher than in 92% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Mila Doce is better than 14% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (D). Household incomes here are lower than in 87% of U.S. towns. Below the poverty line: 32.0% of residents, next to 13.8% across Texas.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Mila Doce apart on work
Mila Doce makes and builds things
67% of the jobs based in Mila Doce are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Mila Doce residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
Mila Doce is a place people come home to
There are 315 jobs based in Mila Doce, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Fewer than half of Mila Doce workers earn over $40,000 a year
40% of Mila Doce’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 20% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
36% of the jobs based in Mila Doce are held by workers 29 or younger, against 29% of Mila Doce’s own working residents. 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Mila Doce
Job access by car holds Mila Doce’s grade up (ahead of 71% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mila Doce could be anywhere from D to C+.
Goods, not services: 67% of the jobs in Mila Doce
315 jobs are based in Mila Doce.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mila Doce, 2013 → 2023: 356 → 315. 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 Mila Doce’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Mila Doce quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,857 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 300 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,200 people are in Mila Doce on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
0.17 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.
19% of working residents work in Weslaco
Where Mila Doce clocks in
19% of workers
11% 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.
Getting to work from Mila Doce takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mila Doce workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,544 commuters (the 13% 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.
Half of Mila Doce commutes less than 15 miles
About 23% 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.
Most of Mila Doce commutes by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,922 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). 5.2% of Mila Doce households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mila Doce’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 5,400 to 10,400, and where Mila Doce sits
| # | 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+ |
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| 16 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Alamo Heights TX | 7,632 | $183K | 2.5% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Oak Point TX | 6,909 | $126K | 1.5% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,745 | Hondo TX | 9,130 | $62K | 17.0% | 7.1% | 20% | D |
| 2,746 | Farmington ME | 8,258 | $54K | 15.4% | 5.2% | 26% | D |
| 2,747 | Mila Doce TX | 7,731 | $51K | 32.0% | 8.9% | 1% | D |
| 2,748 | Mexia TX | 7,091 | $42K | 32.3% | 3.3% | 24% | D |
| 2,749 | Commerce TX | 9,928 | $44K | 23.4% | 6.5% | 24% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,051 | 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 Mila Doce, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Bordering towns draw 19% of Mila Doce’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Weslaco. Darker towns draw more of Mila Doce’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Mila Doce: questions
What is the median household income in Mila Doce?
$50,921 (±$14,165) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mila Doce?
32.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mila Doce?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mila Doce work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Weslaco (19%, 5 mi), McAllen (11%, 18 mi), Edinburg (7%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mila Doce walkable?
Mila Doce is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mila Doce without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mila Doce, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mila Doce
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.