Photo: Wordbuilder · CC BY 3.0Stinnett has lower household incomes than 93% of U.S. towns
Stinnett grades D− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. The poverty rate is 20.0%, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. For 3% of workers, the job is at home, where Texas as a whole has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Stinnett
Fewer jobs are based in Stinnett than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Stinnett fell from 453 in 2014 to 201 in 2024, −56%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Stinnett and Borger trade workers both ways
Borger is the top workplace for Stinnett residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Stinnett come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
37% 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 483 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Stinnett’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Stinnett is better than 4% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Stinnett’s grade.
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Stinnett’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, Stinnett could be anywhere from D− to C.
72% of the jobs in Stinnett pay over $3,333 a month
201 jobs are based in Stinnett.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stinnett, 2014 → 2024: 453 → 201. 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 Stinnett’s own residents hold wherever they work.
17% of working residents work in Borger
Where Stinnett clocks in
17% 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.
How far it is to work from Stinnett
About 37% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Stinnett
On a workday 453 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 171 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Stinnett on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.42 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 2024, primary jobs.
Each way, about 21 minutes from Stinnett
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stinnett workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 361 commuters (the 3% 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.
Most of Stinnett commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Stinnett is more walkable than 17% of U.S. towns. 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 372 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). 0.0% of Stinnett households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Stinnett’s commuters take a bus or train.
Stinnett and other U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| 29 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,647 | Bethesda OH | 1,179 | $36K | 21.8% | 2.8% | 2% | D− |
| 5,648 | Parsons TN | 2,162 | $36K | 25.3% | 7.3% | 22% | D− |
| 5,649 | Stinnett TX | 1,594 | $45K | 20.0% | 3.4% | 6% | D− |
| 5,650 | Lincoln Township MI | 1,319 | $52K | 19.1% | 8.6% | <1% | D− |
| 5,651 | Lynch Township MO | 1,381 | $38K | 13.6% | 0.3% | 2% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Stinnett, 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 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 Stinnett: questions
What is the median household income in Stinnett?
$44,904 (±$10,298) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stinnett?
20.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stinnett?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stinnett work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Borger (17%, 12 mi), Amarillo (8%, 48 mi), Lubbock (5%, 158 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Stinnett walkable?
Stinnett is more walkable than 17% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stinnett 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 Stinnett, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stinnett
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. 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.