Muniz has 0.0 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
There are 4 jobs in Muniz, against 405 working residents. Muniz grades B− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Hardly any stay in Muniz for work; outside it, McAllen is the main destination (19%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Muniz: the figures worth knowing
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Muniz
On income, poverty and job access, Muniz is better than 55% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Muniz’s grade up (ahead of 76% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (20.7%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.8%) is left out: Muniz’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, Muniz could be anywhere from C− to A+.
The daily commute in and out of Muniz
On a workday 405 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Muniz on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Out of Muniz to work: where people go
Where Muniz clocks in
19% of workers
15% of workers
6% 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.
Goods, not services: 100% of the jobs in Muniz
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Muniz, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 4. 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 Muniz’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Muniz takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Muniz workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 516 commuters (the 20% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Muniz
About 27% 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.
For most of Muniz, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Muniz is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 3.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 641 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). 0.0% of Muniz households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Muniz’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Muniz is 2,009th among 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 29 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,007 | Waterford VT | 1,288 | $109K | 7.0% | 1.0% | 3% | B− |
| 2,008 | Rio FL | 1,232 | $92K | 13.6% | 17.6% | <1% | B− |
| 2,009 | Muniz TX | 1,601 | $91K | 20.7% | 3.8% | 0% | B− |
| 2,010 | Lubeck WV | 1,495 | $71K | 5.1% | 9.7% | <1% | B− |
| 2,011 | Mackinaw IL | 1,851 | $67K | 8.2% | 2.8% | 12% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | 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 Muniz, 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 Muniz: questions
What is the median household income in Muniz?
$91,121 (±$51,333) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Muniz?
20.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Muniz?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Muniz work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are McAllen (19%, 10 mi), Edinburg (15%, 6 mi), Pharr (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Muniz walkable?
Muniz is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Muniz without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Muniz, from the people who make the trip.
More of Muniz
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.