Sinton has higher unemployment (8.4%) than 90% of U.S. towns
6% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Jobs and income earn Sinton D; getting around on foot earns it C. Measured by household income, Sinton is behind 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Sinton stands out on work
The four measures behind Sinton’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Sinton is better than 11% of U.S. towns, #585 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds Sinton’s grade up (ahead of 51% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (25.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sinton could be anywhere from D to B−.
Short hops and long hauls from Sinton
About 29% 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.
How a workday changes Sinton
On a workday 1,895 residents head out to work, 383 work right here, and 1,406 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 (0.79 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.
24% of working residents work in Corpus Christi
Where Sinton clocks in
24% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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 the 1,789 jobs in Sinton are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sinton, 2013 → 2023: 1,869 → 1,789. 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 Sinton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes each way, about the TX average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sinton workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,968 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.
In Sinton, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sinton is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns, #445 of 642 in Texas. 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 2,093 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 4.0% of Sinton households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sinton’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Sinton compares with U.S. towns of 4,200 to 8,100
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Garden Ridge TX | 4,371 | $177K | 0.4% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,101 | Mount Carmel IL | 6,723 | $47K | 20.3% | 4.5% | 33% | D |
| 3,102 | Walterboro SC | 5,485 | $56K | 28.2% | 6.1% | 26% | D |
| 3,103 | Sinton TX | 5,966 | $52K | 25.0% | 8.4% | 17% | D |
| 3,104 | Wapato WA | 4,469 | $52K | 24.5% | 7.9% | 13% | D |
| 3,105 | Corbin KY | 7,911 | $51K | 26.0% | 7.2% | 26% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,394 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 4% | 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 Sinton, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Sinton and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sinton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sinton | – | D | C | 26 min | $51,701 |
| Morgan Farm | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Rancho Chico | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Morgan Farm and Rancho Chico: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sinton’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 Sinton: questions
What is the median household income in Sinton?
$51,701 (±$13,560) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sinton?
25.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sinton?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sinton work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corpus Christi (24%, 28 mi), Houston (5%, 176 mi), San Antonio (4%, 116 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sinton walkable?
Sinton is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sinton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sinton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sinton
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.