Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Rogers are lower than in 80% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers, next to 14% for Texas as a whole. 21.3% of residents live below the poverty line, against 13.8% across Texas. The two grades for Rogers 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
What sets Rogers apart on work
The four measures behind Rogers’ grade
On income, poverty and job access, Rogers is better than 19% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Rogers’ grade up (ahead of 51% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Rogers’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, Rogers could be anywhere from D to C+.
25% of working residents work in Temple
Where Rogers clocks in
8% 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.
Rogers on a workday afternoon
On a workday 421 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 268 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Rogers on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.65 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 2023, primary jobs.
What Rogers’ employers do
290 jobs are based in Rogers.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rogers, 2013 → 2023: 218 → 290. 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 Rogers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Rogers: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rogers workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 509 commuters (the 6% 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 it is to work from Rogers
About 28% 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 Rogers, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rogers is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 541 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). 5.1% of Rogers households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rogers’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Rogers ranks: 2,605th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,603 | Hettinger ND | 1,119 | $63K | 9.6% | 3.6% | 38% | C− |
| 2,604 | Wayne Township PA | 1,497 | $73K | 13.2% | 2.4% | 3% | C− |
| 2,605 | Rogers TX | 1,101 | $56K | 21.3% | 3.5% | 5% | C− |
| 2,606 | Halifax VA | 1,092 | $56K | 11.9% | 6.2% | 13% | C− |
| 2,607 | Enfield Township IL | 1,120 | $53K | 8.2% | 2.9% | 4% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Rogers, 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 Rogers: questions
What is the median household income in Rogers?
$55,625 (±$14,141) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rogers?
21.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rogers?
31 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rogers work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Temple (25%, 15 mi), Austin (8%, 54 mi), Dallas (4%, 132 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rogers walkable?
Rogers is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rogers without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rogers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rogers
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.