Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Teague works elsewhere
The two grades for Teague are C for jobs and income and C− for walkability. There are 325 jobs in Teague for 1,410 working residents. 3% of workers have no commute at all, next to 14% for Texas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Teague, in brief
A big share show a job far from home
55% 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 ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Teague than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Teague fell from 556 in 2013 to 325 in 2023, −42%. 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 ↓
Teague is a place people come home to
There are 325 jobs based in Teague, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Teague has about 2,500 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Teague workers work from home
Only 3% 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.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Teague
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Teague is better than 33% of U.S. towns, #413 of 642 in Texas. Unemployment holds Teague’s grade up (2.6%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Teague could be anywhere from D to B.
How far it is to work from Teague
About 55% 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.
The kinds of work in Teague
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Teague, 2013 → 2023: 556 → 325. 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 Teague’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Teague on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,340 residents head out to work, 70 work right here, and 255 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Teague on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Teague
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Teague workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,287 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.
10% of working residents work in Fairfield
Where Teague clocks in
10% 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.
Few in Teague walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Teague is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns, #501 of 642 in Texas. 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 1,330 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). 2.6% of Teague households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Teague’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,474 U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,900, Teague comes 3,076th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Talty TX | 3,299 | $155K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,074 | Greenport NY | 2,590 | $81K | 9.3% | 7.3% | 17% | C |
| 3,075 | Pottsboro TX | 2,767 | $69K | 10.4% | 6.2% | 5% | C |
| 3,076 | Teague TX | 3,595 | $61K | 13.3% | 2.6% | 5% | C |
| 3,077 | Wise VA | 2,853 | $54K | 12.5% | 3.1% | 25% | C |
| 3,078 | Hamilton IL | 2,624 | $57K | 14.2% | 2.9% | 12% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,474 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Teague, 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 Teague: questions
What is the median household income in Teague?
$61,433 (±$10,652) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Teague?
13.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Teague?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Teague work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fairfield (10%, 9 mi), Dallas (7%, 85 mi), Mexia (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Teague walkable?
Teague is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Teague without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Teague, from the people who make the trip.
More of Teague
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.