Franklin County Courthouse and Jail · Photo: Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Post earn less than those in 95% of U.S. towns
1% of workers work from home (Texas 14%). Poverty touches 9.8% of residents (Texas 13.8%). For jobs and income Post is better than 10% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (C).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Post stands out on work
Post’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Post is Lubbock, 39 miles away as the crow flies. 17% of working residents (291) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Few Post workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 ↓
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.
Inside Post’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Post’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($41,304, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Post could be anywhere from D− to C+.
How far it is to work from Post
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.
Commuting from Post: about 23 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Post workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,343 commuters (the 1% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Post
On a workday 1,128 residents head out to work, 559 work right here, and 769 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,100 people are in Post on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 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.
17% of working residents work in Lubbock
Where Post clocks in
2% of workers
2% 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 1,328 jobs based in Post
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Post, 2013 → 2023: 1,539 → 1,328. 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 Post’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Post, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,353 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). 8.2% of Post households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Post’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 2,400 to 4,700, and where Post sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Talty TX | 3,299 | $155K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,102 | Heflin AL | 3,572 | $47K | 17.9% | 6.3% | 17% | D |
| 4,103 | Dennison OH | 2,665 | $52K | 22.9% | 13.2% | 5% | D |
| 4,104 | Post TX | 3,494 | $41K | 9.8% | 8.6% | 33% | D |
| 4,105 | West End-Cobb Town AL | 3,453 | $55K | 22.7% | 15.3% | 3% | D |
| 4,106 | Church Point LA | 4,036 | $46K | 24.0% | 9.5% | 16% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,535 | 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 Post, 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 Post: questions
What is the median household income in Post?
$41,304 (±$5,158) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Post?
9.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Post?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Post work?
33% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lubbock (17%, 39 mi), Midland (2%, 91 mi), Levelland (2%, 63 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Post walkable?
Post is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Post without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Post, from the people who make the trip.
More of Post
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.