Household incomes in Natalia are lower than in 92% of U.S. towns
Only 3% stay in Natalia for work; outside it, San Antonio is the main destination (44%, 28 miles). 24.1% of residents live below the poverty line, against 13.8% across Texas. Natalia grades C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Natalia, in a few figures
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Natalia
On income, poverty and job access, Natalia is better than 21% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Natalia’s grade up (ahead of 72% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($45,750, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.0%) is left out: Natalia’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, Natalia could be anywhere from C− to B.
Where Natalia’s working residents head each day
Where Natalia clocks in
44% of workers
3% 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 many people are in Natalia by day
On a workday 472 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 471 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.00 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What Natalia’s employers do
486 jobs are based in Natalia.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Natalia, 2013 → 2023: 387 → 486. 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 Natalia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 30 minutes to work from Natalia
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Natalia workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 313 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.
Half of Natalia commutes less than 28 miles
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.
Most trips from Natalia start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Natalia is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 5.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 394 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). 11.6% of Natalia households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Natalia’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Natalia ranks: 3,977th of 5,877 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,975 | Lawton MI | 1,861 | $53K | 19.3% | 7.9% | 10% | C− |
| 3,976 | Island City OR | 1,142 | $67K | 14.0% | 7.0% | 5% | C− |
| 3,977 | Natalia TX | 1,373 | $46K | 24.1% | 3.0% | 3% | C− |
| 3,978 | Frankfort ME | 1,248 | $80K | 16.4% | 1.6% | 1% | C− |
| 3,979 | Hawes Township MI | 1,111 | $68K | 10.2% | 5.5% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Natalia, 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 Natalia: questions
What is the median household income in Natalia?
$45,750 (±$24,027) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Natalia?
24.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Natalia?
30 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Natalia work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Antonio (44%, 28 mi), Devine (3%, 4 mi), Lytle (3%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Natalia walkable?
Natalia is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Natalia without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Natalia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Natalia
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.