Photo: Pwhs86 · CC BY-SA 4.0Perrin has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Employers in Perrin report 19 jobs for 154 working residents. Hardly any stay in Perrin for work; outside it, Fort Worth is the main destination (10%, 45 miles). 0% of workers work from home, where Texas as a whole has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Perrin by day and by night
On a workday 154 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in Perrin on a workday afternoon, 54% fewer 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.
Where Perrin goes to work
Where Perrin clocks in
10% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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 kinds of work in Perrin
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Perrin, 2013 → 2023: 10 → 19. 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 Perrin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 45 minutes from Perrin
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Perrin workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 155 commuters (the 0% 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.
Where in the region Perrin works
About 43% 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 Perrin: questions
What is the median household income in Perrin?
$67,569 (±$41,114) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Perrin?
16.9%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Perrin?
45 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Perrin work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Worth (10%, 45 mi), Graham (6%, 30 mi), Jacksboro (6%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Perrin without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Perrin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Perrin
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.