Quitman has lower household incomes than 67% of U.S. towns
About one in seven work in Quitman itself; outside it, Tyler draws the most (7%, 34 miles). 11.2% of residents are in poverty, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. The two grades for Quitman are C for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Quitman and work: the main findings
Quitman is where the jobs are
Quitman has 1,216 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
35% 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; with 761 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Quitman’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Quitman is better than 30% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Quitman’s grade.
Unemployment (9.4%) is left out: Quitman’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, Quitman could be anywhere from C− to B−.
How a workday changes Quitman
On a workday 658 residents head out to work, 103 work right here, and 1,113 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Quitman on a workday afternoon, 22% more than live here.
1.6 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.
How far Quitman’s workers travel
About 35% 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.
The daily trip into Quitman
Where Quitman clocks in
7% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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 1,216 jobs based in Quitman
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Quitman, 2013 → 2023: 1,028 → 1,216. 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 Quitman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Quitman, about 27 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Quitman workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 755 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 Quitman walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Quitman is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Quitman 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 840 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). 12.8% of Quitman households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Quitman’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,800, Quitman ranks 3,599th of 5,793 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,597 | Bellevue ID | 2,597 | $73K | 9.3% | 5.2% | 7% | C |
| 3,598 | Phoenix IL | 1,646 | $30K | 21.5% | 22.6% | 1% | C |
| 3,599 | Quitman TX | 2,057 | $64K | 11.2% | 9.4% | 14% | C |
| 3,600 | Rich Township MI | 1,502 | $66K | 6.5% | 4.5% | 1% | C |
| 3,601 | Bloom Township OH | 2,620 | $58K | 13.9% | 2.4% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,793 | 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 Quitman, 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 Quitman: questions
What is the median household income in Quitman?
$64,493 (±$5,797) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Quitman?
11.2%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Quitman?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Quitman work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tyler (7%, 34 mi), Mineola (6%, 10 mi), Sulphur Springs (3%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Quitman walkable?
Quitman is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Quitman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Quitman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Quitman
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.