Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Poth has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
337 jobs are based in Poth, against 698 working residents. The two grades for Poth are B for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 6% stay in Poth for work; outside it, San Antonio is the main destination (29%, 38 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Poth, in a few figures
Poth and San Antonio trade workers both ways
San Antonio is the top workplace for Poth residents (29%) and also where the most people who work in Poth come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
34% 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 ↓
Poth makes and builds things
40% of the jobs based in Poth are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Poth residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 21%. The jobs ↓
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 698 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Poth’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Poth is better than 60% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Poth’s grade up (5.8%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($72,404, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.2%) is left out: Poth’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Poth could be anywhere from C to A−.
Where Poth goes to work
Where Poth clocks in
29% of workers
8% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Poth
About 34% 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.
40% of the jobs in Poth make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Poth, 2013 → 2023: 260 → 337. 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 Poth’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Poth by day
On a workday 658 residents head out to work, 40 work right here, and 297 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Poth on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Poth
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Poth workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 668 commuters (the 10% 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.
Few in Poth walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Poth is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Poth near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 745 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). 2.2% of Poth households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Poth’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Poth is 1,660th among 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 22 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| 23 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,658 | Pumpkin Center NC | 1,636 | $64K | 2.9% | 8.6% | 0% | B |
| 1,659 | Seneca KS | 2,139 | $77K | 8.0% | 0.9% | 43% | B |
| 1,660 | Poth TX | 2,014 | $72K | 5.8% | 2.2% | 6% | B |
| 1,661 | Elk Township KS | 1,801 | $77K | 5.5% | 0.7% | 6% | B |
| 1,662 | Middlebury Township MI | 1,528 | $77K | 7.7% | 6.8% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Poth, 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 Poth: questions
What is the median household income in Poth?
$72,404 (±$19,076) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Poth?
5.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Poth?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Poth work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Antonio (29%, 38 mi), Floresville (8%, 7 mi), Austin (4%, 87 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Poth walkable?
Poth is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Poth 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 Poth, from the people who make the trip.
More of Poth
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.