Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Quinlan have lower incomes than those in 93% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 10.0%, against 13.8% across Texas. Jobs and income earn Quinlan C+; getting around on foot earns it B+. Only 6% stay in Quinlan for work; outside it, Greenville is the main destination (12%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Quinlan
Quinlan is where the jobs are
Quinlan has 1,312 jobs, 2.4 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,400 people are in town, 48% more than the 1,600 who live here. Day and night ↓
Quinlan has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Quinlan went from 817 in 2013 to 1,312 in 2023, +61%. The jobs ↓
Quinlan workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 37 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 284 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. 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; with 546 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How Quinlan earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Quinlan is better than 38% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Quinlan’s grade up (ahead of 68% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($44,563, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (6.0%) is left out: Quinlan’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Quinlan could be anywhere from C− to B.
Who leaves Quinlan for work, and who comes in
On a workday 513 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 1,279 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,400 people are in Quinlan on a workday afternoon, 48% more than live here.
2.4 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.
What Quinlan’s employers do
1,312 jobs are based in Quinlan.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Quinlan, 2013 → 2023: 817 → 1,312. 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 Quinlan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 37 minutes each way for Quinlan’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Quinlan workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 593 commuters (the 8% 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.
Who travels to work in Quinlan, and from where
Where Quinlan clocks in
12% of workers
5% 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 distance from Quinlan to work
About 22% 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 Quinlan, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Quinlan is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 648 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). 4.5% of Quinlan households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Quinlan’s commuters take a bus or train.
Quinlan next to U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200: 3,065th of 6,161 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 29 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,063 | Worthington KY | 1,447 | $66K | 12.0% | 3.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 3,064 | Clear Lake SD | 1,220 | $85K | 9.8% | 3.8% | 28% | C+ |
| 3,065 | Quinlan TX | 1,601 | $45K | 10.0% | 6.0% | 6% | C+ |
| 3,066 | Southeast Township IN | 1,515 | $96K | 4.0% | 3.1% | <1% | C+ |
| 3,067 | Bradford ME | 1,247 | $83K | 9.0% | 2.7% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Quinlan, 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 Quinlan: questions
What is the median household income in Quinlan?
$44,563 (±$16,572) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Quinlan?
10.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Quinlan?
37 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Quinlan work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (12%, 14 mi), Dallas (9%, 38 mi), Garland (5%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Quinlan walkable?
Quinlan is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Quinlan without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Quinlan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Quinlan
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.