Southmayd has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Home is the office for 2% of workers; Texas has 14%. Employers in Southmayd report 166 jobs; 458 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Southmayd are C+ for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Southmayd: the gist
Southmayd and Sherman trade workers both ways
Sherman is the top workplace for Southmayd residents (30%) and also where the most people who work in Southmayd come from (25% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Southmayd 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 458 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Southmayd’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Southmayd is better than 41% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Southmayd’s grade up ($86,250, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (0.3%) is left out: Southmayd’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Southmayd could be anywhere from D to A−.
30% of working residents work in Sherman
Where Southmayd clocks in
30% of workers
8% 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.
About 28 minutes each way for Southmayd’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Southmayd workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 639 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.
Southmayd quiets down on a workday
On a workday 455 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 163 people come in from elsewhere.
About 820 people are in Southmayd on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
A place that makes things: 64% of Southmayd’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Southmayd, 2013 → 2023: 216 → 166. 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 Southmayd’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Southmayd
About 22% 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.
Getting around Southmayd: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Southmayd is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Southmayd 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 652 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). 0.6% of Southmayd households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Southmayd’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Southmayd ranks 1,596th of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,594 | Carbondale KS | 1,296 | $76K | 15.2% | 0.7% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,595 | Lakewood Club MI | 1,345 | $72K | 11.4% | 2.1% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,596 | Southmayd TX | 1,110 | $86K | 16.8% | 0.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,597 | Amherst WI | 1,119 | $65K | 6.6% | 0.8% | 6% | C+ |
| 1,598 | Parker Township KS | 1,055 | $93K | 9.7% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Southmayd, 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 Southmayd: questions
What is the median household income in Southmayd?
$86,250 (±$36,988) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Southmayd?
16.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Southmayd?
28 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Southmayd work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sherman (30%, 5 mi), Denison (8%, 12 mi), Plano (5%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Southmayd walkable?
Southmayd is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Southmayd 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 Southmayd, from the people who make the trip.
More of Southmayd
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.