Naples has lower household incomes than 98% of U.S. towns
4% of workers work from home; Texas has 14%. Below the poverty line: 25.7% of residents (Texas 13.8%). For jobs and income Naples is better than 3% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (B−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Naples: the figures worth knowing
Naples and Mount Pleasant trade workers both ways
Mount Pleasant is the top workplace for Naples residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Naples come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Naples than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Naples fell from 483 in 2013 to 278 in 2023, −42%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% 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; with 573 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Naples earns its Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Naples’ grade up (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($34,696, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (11.3%) is left out: Naples’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Naples could be anywhere from D− to D.
22% of working residents work in Mount Pleasant
Where Naples clocks in
22% of workers
5% 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.
76% of the jobs in Naples make or build things
278 jobs are based in Naples.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Naples, 2013 → 2023: 483 → 278. 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 Naples’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Naples’ commute, mile by mile
About 36% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Naples
On a workday 545 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 250 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Naples on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
0.49 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
About 25 minutes each way for Naples’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Naples workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 490 commuters (the 4% 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.
Driving is how Naples gets around
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 512 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). 15.6% of Naples households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Naples’ commuters take a bus or train.
Where Naples sits among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 31 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,508 | Comanche OK | 1,393 | $41K | 26.6% | 4.1% | 9% | D− |
| 5,509 | Yemassee SC | 1,145 | $45K | 27.3% | 7.3% | 5% | D− |
| 5,510 | Naples TX | 1,409 | $35K | 25.7% | 11.3% | 5% | D− |
| 5,511 | Newton TX | 1,595 | $56K | 25.4% | 9.7% | 10% | D− |
| 5,512 | Kilmarnock VA | 1,457 | $40K | 23.1% | 2.8% | 16% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Naples, 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 Naples: questions
What is the median household income in Naples?
$34,696 (±$8,051) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Naples?
25.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Naples?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Naples work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Pleasant (22%, 17 mi), Daingerfield (5%, 12 mi), Dallas (3%, 124 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Naples walkable?
Naples is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Naples without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Naples, from the people who make the trip.
More of Naples
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.