Photo: Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Pittsburg are lower than in 93% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 24.7% of residents, next to 13.8% for Texas as a whole. The two grades for Pittsburg are D for jobs and income and C for walkability. 0% of workers have no commute at all; Texas has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Pittsburg: the gist
Pittsburg trades workers with the towns around it
Pittsburg has about as many jobs (2,517) as working residents (2,169), but they are mostly different people: 1,760 residents leave for work each day while 2,108 people come in. Only 16% of the jobs in Pittsburg are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Pittsburg are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Pittsburg workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
The four measures behind Pittsburg’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Pittsburg is better than 9% of U.S. towns, #605 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds Pittsburg’s grade up (ahead of 38% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($44,308, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pittsburg could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Who works in Pittsburg, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,760 residents head out to work, 409 work right here, and 2,108 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 (1.16 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.
Getting to work from Pittsburg takes about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pittsburg workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,799 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.
23% of working residents work in Mount Pleasant
Where Pittsburg clocks in
23% of workers
5% 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.
The 2,517 jobs based in Pittsburg
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pittsburg, 2013 → 2023: 2,999 → 2,517. 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 Pittsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Pittsburg commutes less than 14 miles
About 30% 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.
In Pittsburg, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pittsburg is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns, #449 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.2% of 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 1,799 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). 7.4% of Pittsburg households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pittsburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Pittsburg and other U.S. towns of 3,300 to 6,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 8 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Garden Ridge TX | 4,371 | $177K | 0.4% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,518 | Franklinton LA | 3,576 | $34K | 20.7% | 5.8% | 22% | D |
| 3,519 | Little Falls NY | 4,481 | $54K | 24.3% | 7.6% | 18% | D |
| 3,520 | Pittsburg TX | 4,676 | $44K | 24.7% | 6.6% | 19% | D |
| 3,521 | Mount Olive NC | 4,521 | $49K | 17.7% | 9.8% | 14% | D |
| 3,522 | Avenue B and C AZ | 4,001 | $44K | 19.7% | 19.9% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,798 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Pittsburg, 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 Pittsburg: questions
What is the median household income in Pittsburg?
$44,308 (±$7,672) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pittsburg?
24.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pittsburg?
19 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pittsburg work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Pleasant (23%, 11 mi), Longview (5%, 35 mi), Tyler (3%, 51 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pittsburg walkable?
Pittsburg is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pittsburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pittsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pittsburg
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.