Photo: Leaflet · CC BY-SA 3.0More than half of Ransom Canyon’s working residents commute to Lubbock
Only 1% stay in Ransom Canyon for work; outside it, Lubbock is the main destination (57%, 12 miles). Ransom Canyon grades A for jobs and income and D for walkability. Measured by household income, Ransom Canyon is ahead of 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Ransom Canyon, in brief
More than half of Ransom Canyon works in Lubbock
283 working residents, 57%, have their main job in Lubbock, 12 miles away. That’s 57 times as many as work in Ransom Canyon itself. The commute map ↓
Ransom Canyon is a place people come home to
There are 75 jobs based in Ransom Canyon, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Ransom Canyon has about 750 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 497 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Ransom Canyon’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Ransom Canyon is better than 93% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (2.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 65% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (2.5%) is left out: Ransom Canyon’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, Ransom Canyon could be anywhere from A to A+.
Where Ransom Canyon’s working residents head each day
Where Ransom Canyon clocks in
2% of workers
2% 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.
Ransom Canyon on a workday afternoon
On a workday 492 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 70 people come in from elsewhere.
About 750 people are in Ransom Canyon on a workday afternoon, 36% fewer than live here.
0.15 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Ransom Canyon works in goods: 28% of its jobs
75 jobs are based in Ransom Canyon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ransom Canyon, 2014 → 2024: 43 → 75. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ransom Canyon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 28 minutes each way for Ransom Canyon’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ransom Canyon workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 423 commuters (the 9% 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 many miles Ransom Canyon commutes
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Ransom Canyon walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ransom Canyon is more walkable than 8% 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 463 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). 0.9% of Ransom Canyon households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ransom Canyon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ransom Canyon is 137th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 10 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 135 | Del Rey Oaks CA | 1,536 | $135K | 3.8% | 12.4% | 3% | A |
| 136 | Peru Township OH | 1,534 | $125K | 4.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| 137 | Ransom Canyon TX | 1,172 | $114K | 2.9% | 2.5% | 1% | A |
| 138 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| 139 | Wetherington OH | 1,138 | $168K | 8.2% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Ransom Canyon, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Work in the towns next to Ransom Canyon
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ransom Canyon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ransom Canyon | – | A | D | 28 min | $113,950 |
| Buffalo Springs Lake | under 1% | — | — | 26 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Buffalo Springs Lake: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ransom Canyon’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 2024, 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 Ransom Canyon: questions
What is the median household income in Ransom Canyon?
$113,950 (±$5,862) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ransom Canyon?
2.9%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ransom Canyon?
28 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ransom Canyon work?
1% work in town.
Is Ransom Canyon walkable?
Ransom Canyon is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ransom Canyon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ransom Canyon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ransom Canyon
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.