Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Moody has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Moody has 270 jobs for 725 working residents. The two grades for Moody are C+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Only 2% work in Moody itself; outside it, Waco draws the most (26%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Moody and work: the main findings
Jobs & income in Moody: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Moody is better than 35% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Moody’s grade up (ahead of 58% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.6%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (4.1%) is left out: Moody’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, Moody could be anywhere from D to B.
How far Moody’s workers travel
About 31% 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.
Who commutes out of Moody, and who commutes in
On a workday 707 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 252 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Moody on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Where people from Moody work
Where Moody 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.
The kinds of work in Moody
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Moody, 2013 → 2023: 83 → 270. 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 Moody’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes each way for Moody’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Moody workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 579 commuters (the 8% 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.
Moody is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Moody is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Moody 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 627 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). 3.7% of Moody households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Moody’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,200, Moody ranks 2,869th of 5,381 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 26 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,867 | Waterloo IN | 2,168 | $67K | 12.5% | 6.4% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,868 | Charlotte TN | 1,647 | $59K | 11.7% | 7.0% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,869 | Moody TX | 1,650 | $70K | 17.6% | 4.1% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,870 | Cosmopolis WA | 1,656 | $85K | 10.3% | 5.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,871 | Galesville WI | 1,704 | $71K | 12.3% | 0.0% | 7% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,381 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Moody, 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 Moody: questions
What is the median household income in Moody?
$69,750 (±$26,806) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Moody?
17.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Moody?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Moody work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waco (26%, 20 mi), Temple (17%, 14 mi), Austin (4%, 74 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Moody walkable?
Moody is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Moody without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Moody, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moody
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.