Most of Stowell commutes out: there are 0.6 jobs for every working resident
For 0% of workers, the job is at home, where Texas as a whole has 14%. 406 jobs are based in Stowell for 717 working residents. Getting around Stowell on foot earns D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Stowell, in brief
Stowell’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Stowell is Beaumont, 25 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (100) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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 ↓
Few Stowell workers work from home
Only 0% 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 717 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How many miles Stowell commutes
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.
About 28 minutes each way, about the TX average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stowell workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 795 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.
Stowell on a workday afternoon
On a workday 653 residents head out to work, 64 work right here, and 342 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Stowell on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
Where Stowell’s working residents head each day
Where Stowell clocks in
14% of workers
12% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Stowell
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stowell, 2013 → 2023: 153 → 406. 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 Stowell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Stowell is a driving town
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 795 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). 11.1% of Stowell households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Stowell’s commuters take a bus or train.
Around Stowell: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Winnie (8%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Stowell’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 Stowell: questions
What is the poverty rate in Stowell?
49.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stowell?
28 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stowell work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Beaumont (14%, 25 mi), Houston (12%, 61 mi), Winnie (8%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Stowell walkable?
Stowell is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stowell without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stowell, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stowell
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.