Photo: J.B. Hill from Huntsville, TX, USA · CC BY 2.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Shiro works elsewhere
For 0% of workers, the job is at home; Texas has 14%. Employers in Shiro report 20 jobs, against 95 working residents. Hardly any work in Shiro; the top destination outside it is Houston (18%, 64 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Shiro, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 95 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 20 people come in from elsewhere.
About 84 people are in Shiro on a workday afternoon, 47% 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.
Commuting out of Shiro: the destinations
Where Shiro clocks in
18% of workers
11% of workers
7% 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.
Shiro makes things: 70% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Shiro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Shiro
of Shiro workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 21 commuters (the 0% 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 commute from Shiro, by distance
About 48% 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 Shiro: questions
What is the poverty rate in Shiro?
81.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Shiro work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (18%, 64 mi), Huntsville (11%, 21 mi), Bryan (7%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Shiro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shiro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shiro
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.