Photo: Nick81aku at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Timpson
372 jobs are based in Timpson, and 331 of its residents work somewhere. Only 5% work in Timpson itself; outside it, Center draws the most (23%, 15 miles). At 27 minutes each way, commutes from Timpson run about the Texas average.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Timpson stands out on work
A big share show a job far from home
34% 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 ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
40% of the jobs in Timpson are in trade, transport and utilities, against 21% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
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 331 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The distance from Timpson to work
About 34% 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.
Jobs in Timpson: what the 372 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Timpson, 2013 → 2023: 113 → 372. 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 Timpson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Timpson, and who commutes in
On a workday 313 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 354 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.12 per resident).
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 the trip to work from Timpson ends
Where Timpson clocks in
23% 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.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Timpson
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Timpson workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 319 commuters (the 13% 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.
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 Timpson: questions
What is the median household income in Timpson?
$31,250 (±$15,423) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Timpson?
36.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Timpson?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Timpson work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Center (23%, 15 mi), Nacogdoches (9%, 25 mi), Lufkin (8%, 45 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Timpson without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Timpson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Timpson
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.