Households in Sansom Park have lower incomes than those in 95% of U.S. towns
26.7% of residents live below the poverty line; Texas has 13.8%. For jobs and income Sansom Park is better than 26% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (B−). Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers (Texas 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Sansom Park: the gist
Stores, warehouses and trucking
65% of the jobs in Sansom Park are in trade, transport and utilities, against 28% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Sansom Park and Fort Worth trade workers both ways
Fort Worth is the top workplace for Sansom Park residents (35%) and also where the most people who work in Sansom Park come from (21% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Sansom Park has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Sansom Park went from 571 in 2013 to 941 in 2023, +65%. The jobs ↓
Few Sansom Park workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How Sansom Park earns its Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Sansom Park’s grade up (ahead of 96% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($42,257, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sansom Park could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The kinds of work in Sansom Park
941 jobs are based in Sansom Park.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sansom Park, 2013 → 2023: 571 → 941. 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 Sansom Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
35% of working residents work in Fort Worth
Where Sansom Park clocks in
35% 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.
The trip to work from Sansom Park: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sansom Park workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,998 commuters (the 4% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Sansom Park
On a workday 2,425 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 913 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,900 people are in Sansom Park on a workday afternoon, 28% fewer than live here.
0.38 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Sansom Park
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 Sansom Park, the car does most of the work
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 2,081 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 84% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 70% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 15.6% of Sansom Park households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sansom Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Sansom Park ranks: 2,733rd of 3,541 U.S. towns of 3,800 to 7,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Garden Ridge TX | 4,371 | $177K | 0.4% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,731 | Gallipolis Township OH | 4,713 | $51K | 17.0% | 2.1% | 19% | C |
| 2,732 | Fabens TX | 4,818 | $43K | 28.3% | 3.7% | 8% | C |
| 2,733 | Sansom Park TX | 5,419 | $42K | 26.7% | 5.9% | 1% | C |
| 2,734 | Cisco TX | 3,980 | $59K | 6.3% | 5.9% | 24% | C |
| 2,735 | Butler Beach FL | 4,610 | $77K | 10.1% | 11.1% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,541 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Sansom Park, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
How Sansom Park compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sansom Park workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sansom Park | – | C | B− | 27 min | $42,257 |
| Lake Worth | under 2% | B− | C+ | 28 min | $81,910 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sansom Park’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 Sansom Park: questions
What is the median household income in Sansom Park?
$42,257 (±$16,562) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sansom Park?
26.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sansom Park?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sansom Park work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Worth (35%, 3 mi), Dallas (8%, 37 mi), Arlington (5%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sansom Park walkable?
Sansom Park is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 11.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sansom Park without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sansom Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sansom Park
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.