Rancho Alegre has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Rancho Alegre has 22 jobs, against 568 working residents. The two grades for Rancho Alegre are D for jobs and income and D for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 89% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Rancho Alegre: the figures worth knowing
Rancho Alegre is a place people come home to
There are 22 jobs based in Rancho Alegre, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Rancho Alegre has about 790 people in it, 41% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Rancho Alegre and Alice trade workers both ways
Alice is the top workplace for Rancho Alegre residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Rancho Alegre come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Rancho Alegre are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas 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 568 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Rancho Alegre’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Rancho Alegre is better than 11% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Rancho Alegre’s grade up (ahead of 42% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (23.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Rancho Alegre’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, Rancho Alegre could be anywhere from D to B−.
How a workday changes Rancho Alegre
On a workday 568 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 22 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Rancho Alegre on a workday afternoon, 41% 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.
33% of working residents work in Alice
Where Rancho Alegre clocks in
14% 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.
A commute of about 17 minutes in Rancho Alegre
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rancho Alegre workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 333 commuters (the 13% 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.
Rancho Alegre makes things: 59% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rancho Alegre, 2013 → 2023: 10 → 22. 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 Rancho Alegre’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Rancho Alegre to work
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.
Few in Rancho Alegre walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rancho Alegre is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 382 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). 16.8% of Rancho Alegre households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rancho Alegre’s commuters take a bus or train.
Rancho Alegre next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800: 4,378th of 5,400 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 30 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,376 | Boggs Township PA | 1,620 | $61K | 22.7% | 8.1% | 1% | D |
| 4,377 | Tok AK | 1,649 | $64K | 14.5% | 5.8% | — | D |
| 4,378 | Rancho Alegre TX | 1,337 | $49K | 23.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D |
| 4,379 | Geneva IN | 1,293 | $53K | 21.5% | 5.9% | 3% | D |
| 4,380 | John Day OR | 1,634 | $58K | 12.9% | 6.9% | 36% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Rancho Alegre, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
The towns next door employ 33% of Rancho Alegre
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Rancho Alegre workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rancho Alegre | – | D | D | 17 min | $49,202 |
| Alice | 33% | C− | B | 23 min | $48,676 |
| Alice Acres | under 1% | — | — | 37 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Alice Acres: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Alice. Darker towns draw more of Rancho Alegre’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Rancho Alegre: questions
What is the median household income in Rancho Alegre?
$49,202 (±$2,607) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rancho Alegre?
23.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rancho Alegre?
17 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rancho Alegre work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Alice (33%, 2 mi), Corpus Christi (14%, 57 mi), Houston (5%, 217 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rancho Alegre walkable?
Rancho Alegre is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rancho Alegre without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rancho Alegre, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rancho Alegre
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.