Fort Concho Historic District · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0San Angelo’s household incomes are lower than in 65% of U.S. towns
About two in three work in San Angelo itself; outside it, Abilene draws the most (2%, 82 miles). Poverty touches 11.0% of residents, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. The two grades for San Angelo are B− 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 the numbers say about work in San Angelo
Most jobs in San Angelo go to people who live here
Of the 40,792 jobs based in San Angelo, 61% are held by San Angelo residents. In most towns, people from elsewhere hold most of the local jobs. Day and night ↓
Commutes from San Angelo are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 61 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in San Angelo
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, San Angelo is better than 48% of U.S. towns, #308 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds San Angelo’s grade up (ahead of 58% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($65,864, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, San Angelo could be anywhere from C+ to B.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 13,458 residents head out to work, 24,822 work right here, and 15,970 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.07 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
A commute of about 19 minutes in San Angelo
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of San Angelo workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 44,034 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.
Where San Angelo goes to work
Where San Angelo clocks in
2% of workers
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.
What San Angelo’s employers do
40,792 jobs are based in San Angelo.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in San Angelo, 2013 → 2023: 37,146 → 40,792. 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 San Angelo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far San Angelo goes to work
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.
The commute in San Angelo is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, San Angelo is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns, #85 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place San Angelo 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 48,459 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). 5.5% of San Angelo households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of San Angelo’s commuters take a bus or train.
These are town averages; neighborhoods differ.
San Angelo places 296th of 428 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 70,000 to 136,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lakeville MN | 79,270 | $139K | 2.9% | 2.0% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Plymouth MN | 78,942 | $137K | 4.3% | 2.3% | 12% | A+ |
| 3 | South Jordan UT | 87,614 | $134K | 3.7% | 2.4% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Flower Mound TX | 79,540 | $161K | 4.3% | 3.4% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Pearland TX | 129,930 | $119K | 4.1% | 3.3% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Allen TX | 113,447 | $131K | 6.1% | 3.7% | 11% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 294 | North Charleston SC | 129,245 | $63K | 14.4% | 4.3% | 34% | B− |
| 295 | Tamarac FL | 74,134 | $62K | 13.0% | 5.2% | 4% | B− |
| 296 | San Angelo TX | 100,640 | $66K | 11.0% | 3.9% | 65% | B− |
| 297 | Pike Township IN | 84,515 | $69K | 14.2% | 5.7% | 17% | B− |
| 298 | Mount Vernon NY | 72,304 | $79K | 14.7% | 9.3% | 9% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 428 | Flint MI | 79,306 | $38K | 34.1% | 14.8% | 20% | 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 San Angelo, 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 San Angelo: questions
What is the median household income in San Angelo?
$65,864 (±$2,762) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in San Angelo?
11.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from San Angelo?
19 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in San Angelo work?
65% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Abilene (2%, 82 mi), Austin (2%, 178 mi), Midland (2%, 106 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is San Angelo walkable?
San Angelo is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around San Angelo without a car?
<1% 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 San Angelo, from the people who make the trip.
More of San Angelo
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.