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Jobs & commute in Pyote

Work means Monahans for about half of Pyote’s working residents

5% of workers work from home (Texas 14%). Hardly any work in Pyote; the top destination outside it is Monahans (45%, 10 miles). Pyote has 208 jobs, against 29 working residents.

Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made

Day and night

How a workday changes Pyote

On a workday 29 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 208 people come in from elsewhere.

29live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
208work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night73
Workday250
73live here− 29head out to work+ 210come in to work= 250on a workday

About 250 people are in Pyote on a workday afternoon, 245% more than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
7.17jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

7.2 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

The commute map

Where Pyote’s workers come from

PyoteBig LakeKermit: 8 workers live here (4%)Fort Stockton: 3 workers live here (1%)Monahans: 39 workers live here (19%)Town of Pecos: 10 workers live here (5%)El Paso: 11 workers live here (5%)Dallas: 3 workers live here (1%)Fort Worth: 3 workers live here (1%)Midland: 21 workers live here (10%)Odessa: 20 workers live here (10%)Southwest SandhillChannelviewWest Odessa: 7 workers live here (3%)MonahansMidlandOdessaEl PasoTown of PecosKermitPyote
1
Monahans9.6 mi away
19%39
2
Midland68.1 mi away
10%21
3
Odessa51.4 mi away
10%20
4
El Paso195.7 mi away
5%11
5
Town of Pecos25.7 mi away
5%10
6
Kermit21.9 mi away
4%8
7
West Odessa42.1 mi away
3%7
8
Fort Stockton46.8 mi away
1%3
9
Dallas381.7 mi away
1%3
10
Fort Worth348.4 mi away
1%3
Everywhere elseother towns and states
40%83
The top trips

Where Pyote clocks in

Lines 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 jobs

A place that makes things: 67% of Pyote’s jobs are in goods

Jobs based in PyoteJobs Pyote residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms67%28%
Trade, transport & utilities25%21%
Services: health, schools, offices8%52%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less3%7%
$1,251–$3,333 a month6%31%
Over $3,333 a month91%62%

Who does it

29 or younger16%10%
30 to 5460%55%
55 and older24%34%
+259%

Jobs based in Pyote, 2013 → 2023: 58 → 208. 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 Pyote’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Time on the road

Working from home in Pyote

Working from home
5%

of Pyote workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.

About 0 in 10
How Pyote gets to work
92%Drive alone
8%Carpool

Share of the 39 commuters (the 5% 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.

How far

Close to home or a long way: work trips from Pyote

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miMonahans: 45% · 9.6 miSouthwest Sandhill: 10% · 12.8 miMidland: 7% · 68.1 miOdessa: 7% · 51.4 miBig Lake: 3% · 101.3 miEl Paso: 3% · 195.7 miChannelview: 3% · 490.8 miWest Odessa: 3% · 42.1 miMonahans 45%Southwest Sandhill 10%Midland 7%Odessa 7%Big Lake 3%Pyote
PyoteTop destinations (size = commuters)
0%Under 10 mi0 residents
66%10–24 mi19 residents
14%25–50 mi4 residents
21%Over 50 mi6 residents

About 21% 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.

How to read these numbers

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.

How these figures and grades are made →

Jobs and commuting in Pyote: questions

What is the poverty rate in Pyote?

31.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).

Where do people who live in Pyote work?

0% work in town.

Can you get around Pyote without a car?

0% of commuters take transit and 32% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.

Commuter talk

Getting to work from Pyote, from the people who make the trip.

Town Square →
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Beyond the commute

More of Pyote

Pyote home →

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.