Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: Peaster has 3.9 jobs per working resident, and 301 people come in to work
Working from home is the commute for 28% of workers, against 14% across Texas. Peaster has 302 jobs; 77 of its residents have a job. Only 1% stay in Peaster for work; outside it, Fort Worth is the main destination (23%, 31 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Peaster fills up on a workday
On a workday 76 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 860 people are in Peaster on a workday afternoon, 35% more than live here.
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 towns that send workers to Peaster
Where Peaster clocks in
23% of workers
14% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Peaster
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Peaster, 2013 → 2023: 197 → 302. 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 Peaster’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Peaster: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Peaster workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 220 commuters (the 28% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Peaster
About 25% 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.
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 Peaster: questions
What is the poverty rate in Peaster?
1.9%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Peaster?
22 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Peaster work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Worth (23%, 31 mi), Weatherford (14%, 9 mi), Mineral Wells (4%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Peaster without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Peaster, from the people who make the trip.
More of Peaster
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.