Mullin draws 144 commuters a day, with 2.6 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers, where Texas as a whole has 14%. Employers in Mullin report 145 jobs, against 55 working residents. Only 2% work in Mullin itself; outside it, Goldthwaite draws the most (16%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Mullin: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 54 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 220 people are in Mullin on a workday afternoon, 69% more 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.
The towns that send workers to Mullin
Where Mullin clocks in
16% of workers
13% of workers
13% 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.
Mullin is a services town
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 Mullin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Mullin takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mullin workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 123 commuters (the 2% 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 Mullin
About 58% 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 Mullin: questions
What is the median household income in Mullin?
$47,981 (±$7,853) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mullin?
12.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mullin?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mullin work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Goldthwaite (16%, 9 mi), Brownwood (13%, 21 mi), Austin (13%, 102 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mullin 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 Mullin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mullin
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.