Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Skidmore are lower than in 97% of U.S. towns
1.1% of residents are in poverty (Texas 13.8%). The two grades for Skidmore are C for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Home is the office for 0% of workers (Texas 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Skidmore
Skidmore’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Skidmore is Corpus Christi, 47 miles away as the crow flies. 17% of working residents (50) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Skidmore is a place people come home to
There are 29 jobs based in Skidmore, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% 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 ↓
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 287 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Skidmore’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Skidmore is better than 35% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Skidmore’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($36,744, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (5.1%) is left out: Skidmore’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, Skidmore could be anywhere from C to B−.
How far Skidmore’s workers travel
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In and out of Skidmore on a workday
On a workday 285 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 27 people come in from elsewhere.
About 930 people are in Skidmore on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.10 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.
17% of working residents work in Corpus Christi
Where Skidmore clocks in
17% of workers
11% 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 kinds of work in Skidmore
29 jobs are based in Skidmore.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Skidmore, 2013 → 2023: 37 → 29. 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 Skidmore’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Skidmore: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Skidmore workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 522 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.
In Skidmore, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Skidmore is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Skidmore near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 522 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). 7.1% of Skidmore households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Skidmore’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Skidmore is 2,157th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,155 | Scipio NY | 1,516 | $77K | 10.6% | 3.7% | 10% | C |
| 2,156 | Baileys Harbor WI | 1,258 | $74K | 7.1% | 0.3% | 5% | C |
| 2,157 | Skidmore TX | 1,183 | $37K | 1.1% | 5.1% | 1% | C |
| 2,158 | Osceola Mills PA | 1,007 | $68K | 10.1% | 7.1% | 1% | C |
| 2,159 | Duncansville PA | 1,207 | $55K | 11.5% | 11.3% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Skidmore, 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 Skidmore: questions
What is the median household income in Skidmore?
$36,744 (±$26,556) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Skidmore?
1.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Skidmore?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Skidmore work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corpus Christi (17%, 47 mi), Beeville (11%, 10 mi), San Antonio (5%, 97 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Skidmore walkable?
Skidmore is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Skidmore without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Skidmore, from the people who make the trip.
More of Skidmore
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.