Photo: Leaflet · CC BY-SA 3.0About two in five of New Home’s working residents commute to Lubbock
The average commute takes 19 minutes each way (Texas 27, U.S. 26). Only 3% work in New Home; the top destination outside it is Lubbock (41%, 16 miles). Home is the office for 8% of workers (Texas 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes New Home
On a workday 167 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 150 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 (0.90 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where New Home’s working residents head each day
Where New Home clocks in
4% of workers
4% 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.
Services make up most of the work in New Home
155 jobs are based in New Home.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Home, 2014 → 2024: 51 → 155. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs New Home’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from New Home: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Home workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 99 commuters (the 7% 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 New Home goes to work
About 29% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 New Home: questions
What is the median household income in New Home?
$55,625 (±$27,523) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Home?
23.2%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Home?
19 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Home work?
3% work in town.
Can you get around New Home 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 New Home, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Home
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.