Household incomes in Orange Grove trail those of 93% of U.S. towns
For 7% of workers, the job is at home, where Texas as a whole has 14%. The two grades for Orange Grove are D for jobs and income and C for walkability. Only 4% stay in Orange Grove for work; outside it, Corpus Christi is the main destination (25%, 49 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Orange Grove in brief
Orange Grove’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Orange Grove is Corpus Christi, 49 miles away as the crow flies. 25% of working residents (91) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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 ↓
Orange Grove workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 362 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Orange Grove’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Orange Grove is better than 15% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Orange Grove’s grade up (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($44,779, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Orange Grove’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, Orange Grove could be anywhere from D to C+.
Half of Orange Grove commutes less than 35 miles
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.
Each way, about 35 minutes from Orange Grove
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Orange Grove workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 469 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 348 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 283 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 (0.82 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.
The places Orange Grove commutes to
Where Orange Grove clocks in
25% 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.
The 297 jobs based in Orange Grove
297 jobs are based in Orange Grove.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Orange Grove, 2013 → 2023: 220 → 297. 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 Orange Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Orange Grove walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Orange Grove is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 506 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). 1.5% of Orange Grove households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Orange Grove’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Orange Grove is 3,245th among 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,243 | Greenup KY | 1,069 | $40K | 15.9% | 6.2% | 8% | D |
| 3,244 | Byhalia MS | 1,412 | $39K | 34.9% | 6.9% | 5% | D |
| 3,245 | Orange Grove TX | 1,178 | $45K | 13.8% | 1.7% | 4% | D |
| 3,246 | Clarksville VA | 1,303 | $64K | 15.4% | 6.6% | 8% | D |
| 3,247 | Mullens WV | 1,336 | $62K | 13.8% | 0.9% | 9% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Orange Grove, 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 Orange Grove: questions
What is the median household income in Orange Grove?
$44,779 (±$10,716) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Orange Grove?
13.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Orange Grove?
35 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Orange Grove work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corpus Christi (25%, 49 mi), Alice (9%, 16 mi), Houston (5%, 199 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Orange Grove walkable?
Orange Grove is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Orange Grove without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Orange Grove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Orange Grove
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.