Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Ross has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers, next to 14% for Texas as a whole. There are 5 jobs in Ross; 148 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Ross; the top destination outside it is Waco (34%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Ross
On a workday 148 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 5 people come in from elsewhere.
About 54 people are in Ross on a workday afternoon, 73% 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.
Where people from Ross work
Where Ross clocks in
9% of workers
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.
What Ross’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ross, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 5. 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 Ross’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 20 minutes from Ross
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ross workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 91 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Ross
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.
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 Ross: questions
What is the median household income in Ross?
$61,625 (±$18,517) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ross?
19.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ross?
20 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ross work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waco (34%, 13 mi), West (9%, 5 mi), Austin (8%, 106 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ross without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ross, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ross
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.