Household incomes in Seagraves trail those of 92% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 18.8% of residents, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. The two grades for Seagraves are D− for jobs and income and B for walkability. 2% of workers have no commute at all, next to 14% for Texas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Seagraves: the figures worth knowing
A big share show a job far from home
41% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Commutes from Seagraves are quick
The average trip to work takes 13 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 107 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Seagraves workers work from home
Only 2% 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; with 591 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Seagraves’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Seagraves is better than 4% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Seagraves’ grade.
Unemployment (7.1%) is left out: Seagraves’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, Seagraves could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Where in the region Seagraves works
About 41% 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 daily trip from Seagraves: about 13 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Seagraves workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 834 commuters (the 2% 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 people are in Seagraves by day
On a workday 509 residents head out to work, 82 work right here, and 293 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.
0.63 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.
9% of working residents work in Seminole
Where Seagraves clocks in
9% of workers
6% 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.
What work there is in Seagraves: 375 jobs
375 jobs are based in Seagraves.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Seagraves, 2013 → 2023: 488 → 375. 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 Seagraves’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most trips from Seagraves start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Seagraves is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.2% of 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 853 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). 9.5% of Seagraves households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Seagraves’ commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,200, and where Seagraves sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Southside Place TX | 1,916 | $163K | 5.0% | 5.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,246 | Morgan GA | 1,818 | $46K | 20.6% | 29.6% | 5% | D− |
| 5,247 | Elsberry MO | 2,108 | $50K | 24.8% | 1.6% | 10% | D− |
| 5,248 | Seagraves TX | 2,352 | $46K | 18.8% | 7.1% | 14% | D− |
| 5,249 | Leachville AR | 1,883 | $51K | 27.2% | 0.7% | 8% | D− |
| 5,250 | East Ellijay GA | 1,816 | $29K | 26.8% | 2.5% | 8% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,552 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Seagraves, 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 Seagraves: questions
What is the median household income in Seagraves?
$46,433 (±$15,981) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Seagraves?
18.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Seagraves?
13 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Seagraves work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Seminole (9%, 16 mi), Denver City (6%, 16 mi), Midland (5%, 69 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Seagraves walkable?
Seagraves is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Seagraves without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Seagraves, from the people who make the trip.
More of Seagraves
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.