Mount Calm has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
For 21% of workers, the job is at home, next to 14% for Texas as a whole. There are 4 jobs in Mount Calm; 120 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Mount Calm itself; outside it, Hubbard draws the most (16%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Mount Calm: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 120 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 220 people are in Mount Calm on a workday afternoon, 35% 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 Mount Calm work
Where Mount Calm clocks in
16% 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.
Mount Calm makes things: 100% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Mount Calm’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Mount Calm’s commute takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Calm workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 144 commuters (the 21% 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.
How far it is to work from Mount Calm
About 50% 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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Mount Calm: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Calm?
$49,934 (±$16,506) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Calm?
14.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Calm?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Calm work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hubbard (16%, 8 mi), Waco (8%, 23 mi), Dallas (7%, 72 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mount Calm without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Calm, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Calm
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.