Oliphant House · Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Milam has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Milam has 120 jobs; 393 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Milam is better than 5% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (C+). Measured by household income, Milam 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 work figures that set Milam apart
A big share show a job far from home
54% 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 ↓
A lot of Milam works from home
30% of Milam workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. 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; with 393 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Milam earns its Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Milam’s grade up (14.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (10.9%) is left out: Milam’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, Milam could be anywhere from D− to C+.
How many miles Milam commutes
About 54% 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.
About 27 minutes each way for Milam’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Milam workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 198 commuters (the 30% 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.
Who commutes out of Milam, and who commutes in
On a workday 375 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 102 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in Milam on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
16% of working residents work in Hemphill
Where Milam clocks in
16% of workers
8% of workers
5% 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: 31% of jobs based in Milam
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Milam, 2013 → 2023: 28 → 120. 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 Milam’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Milam is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 284 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). 2.2% of Milam households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Milam’s commuters take a bus or train.
Milam next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 4,361st of 4,866 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,359 | Hurley WI | 1,617 | $47K | 14.6% | 3.0% | 29% | D |
| 4,360 | Wheeler NY | 1,150 | $60K | 35.0% | 3.0% | 1% | D |
| 4,361 | Milam TX | 1,258 | $51K | 14.9% | 10.9% | 5% | D |
| 4,362 | Fanning Springs FL | 1,349 | $54K | 18.6% | 7.3% | 3% | D |
| 4,363 | Ellaville GA | 1,529 | $47K | 16.9% | 8.0% | 21% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Milam, 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 Milam: questions
What is the median household income in Milam?
$50,781 (±$17,991) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Milam?
14.9%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Milam?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 30% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Milam work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hemphill (16%, 8 mi), Houston (8%, 149 mi), Beaumont (5%, 97 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Milam walkable?
Milam is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Milam without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Milam, from the people who make the trip.
More of Milam
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.