Most of Proctor commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
100% of workers work from home, next to 14% for Texas as a whole. Proctor has 14 jobs, and 53 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Proctor itself; outside it, Fort Worth draws the most (9%, 84 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Proctor on a workday afternoon
On a workday 53 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 14 people come in from elsewhere.
About 100 people are in Proctor on a workday afternoon, 28% 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 Proctor’s working residents head each day
Where Proctor clocks in
9% 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.
Goods jobs make up 43% of work in Proctor
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Proctor, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 14. 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 Proctor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Proctor
of Proctor workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Half of Proctor commutes less than 27 miles
About 40% 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 Proctor: questions
What is the poverty rate in Proctor?
0.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Proctor work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Worth (9%, 84 mi), Hamilton (6%, 27 mi), Comanche (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Proctor, from the people who make the trip.
More of Proctor
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.