Photo: Djmaschek · CC BY-SA 3.0Work means Houston for about half of Thompsons’ working residents
The average commute, 27 minutes each way, matches the Texas norm. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers (Texas 14%). Hardly any work in Thompsons itself; outside it, Houston draws the most (45%, 26 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Thompsons, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 95 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 26 people come in from elsewhere.
About 120 people are in Thompsons on a workday afternoon, 37% fewer than live here.
0.27 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.
Commuting out of Thompsons: the destinations
Where Thompsons clocks in
45% 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.
Thompsons works in goods: 31% of its jobs
26 jobs are based in Thompsons.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Thompsons’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 27 minutes each way, about the TX average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Thompsons workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 113 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.
Thompsons’ commute, mile by mile
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.
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 Thompsons: questions
What is the median household income in Thompsons?
$62,500 (±$15,687) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Thompsons?
8.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Thompsons?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Thompsons work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Thompsons without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Thompsons, from the people who make the trip.
More of Thompsons
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.