Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 3.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Skellytown works elsewhere
2% of workers have no commute at all (Texas 14%). Skellytown has 24 jobs; 126 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Skellytown for work; outside it, Amarillo is the main destination (16%, 45 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Skellytown by day and by night
On a workday 125 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 23 people come in from elsewhere.
About 280 people are in Skellytown on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Skellytown: the destinations
Where Skellytown clocks in
16% 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.
Goods jobs make up 67% of work in Skellytown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Skellytown, 2014 → 2024: 25 → 24. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Skellytown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Skellytown: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Skellytown workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 157 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.
Miles to work from Skellytown
About 36% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Skellytown: questions
What is the median household income in Skellytown?
$55,625 (±$21,035) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Skellytown?
24.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Skellytown?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Skellytown work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Amarillo (16%, 45 mi), White Deer (13%, 10 mi), Groom (4%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Skellytown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Skellytown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Skellytown
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.