Durst-Taylor House · Photo: Rwminix · CC BY-SA 3.0Nacogdoches’ family incomes are lower than in 93% of U.S. towns
For 6% of workers, the job is at home, where Texas as a whole has 14%. Leaving out college students, 24.2% of residents live below the poverty line, against 13.2% across Texas. The two grades for Nacogdoches are D for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Nacogdoches, in a few figures
Commutes from Nacogdoches are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 84 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
Nacogdoches is where the jobs are
Nacogdoches has 17,804 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Nacogdoches draws workers from far and wide
The 17,804 jobs in Nacogdoches are filled from a wide area. Nacogdoches’ own residents hold 26% and the ten next-biggest home towns 11%; the other 63% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
37% 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 ↓
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.
Nacogdoches’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On family income, poverty and job access, Nacogdoches is better than 11% of U.S. towns, #584 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds Nacogdoches’ grade up (ahead of 47% of U.S. towns); family income pulls it down ($55,973, U.S. $99,999).
27% of Nacogdoches’ residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (18% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 24.2%, against 31.5% for all residents. Unemployment (8.2%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($55,973), since student households pull the household median down ($39,281).
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Nacogdoches stays D.
About 16 minutes each way, quicker than most of Texas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Nacogdoches workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 13,877 commuters (the 6% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Nacogdoches
On a workday 6,457 residents head out to work, 4,699 work right here, and 13,105 people come in from elsewhere.
About 39,000 people are in Nacogdoches on a workday afternoon, 20% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting in to Nacogdoches: where workers come from
Where Nacogdoches clocks in
9% of workers
6% of workers
2% 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.
How far Nacogdoches’ workers travel
About 37% 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.
The 17,804 jobs based in Nacogdoches
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Nacogdoches, 2013 → 2023: 18,854 → 17,804. 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 Nacogdoches’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Nacogdoches is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Nacogdoches is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns, #67 of 642 in Texas. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 7.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 14,835 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). 7.7% of Nacogdoches households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Nacogdoches’ commuters take a bus or train.
Nacogdoches next to U.S. towns of 23,000 to 44,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Colleyville TX | 25,727 | $218K | 2.5% | 3.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Corinth TX | 25,297 | $121K | 3.5% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,259 | Gadsden AL | 33,367 | $40K | 28.1% | 7.2% | 40% | D |
| 1,260 | Saginaw MI | 42,863 | $39K | 34.0% | 10.1% | 21% | D |
| 1,261 | Nacogdoches TX | 32,500 | $39K | 31.5% | 8.2% | 42% | D |
| 1,262 | Marion Township OH | 43,499 | $50K | 20.4% | 8.8% | 33% | D |
| 1,263 | Rexburg ID | 40,334 | $51K | 32.5% | 8.8% | 42% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 1,283 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Nacogdoches, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Nacogdoches and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Nacogdoches workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nacogdoches | – | D | A− | 16 min | $39,281 |
| Redfield | under 1% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Redfield: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Nacogdoches’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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.
- Students. 27% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Nacogdoches: questions
What is the median household income in Nacogdoches?
$39,281 (±$2,520) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Nacogdoches?
31.5% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 24.2%. Texas: 13.8%.
How long is the commute from Nacogdoches?
16 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Nacogdoches work?
42% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lufkin (9%, 20 mi), Houston (6%, 134 mi), Center (2%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Nacogdoches walkable?
Nacogdoches is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Nacogdoches without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Nacogdoches, from the people who make the trip.
More of Nacogdoches
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.