Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Tolar has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
There are 86 jobs in Tolar, against 467 working residents. For jobs and income Tolar is better than 29% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (D). Hardly any work in Tolar itself; outside it, Granbury draws the most (16%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Tolar apart on work
Tolar is a place people come home to
There are 86 jobs based in Tolar, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Tolar has about 1,100 people in it, 26% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
40% 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 467 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Tolar
Household income holds Tolar’s grade up ($91,250, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (6.7%) is left out: Tolar’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Tolar could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Who commutes out of Tolar, and who commutes in
On a workday 465 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 84 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Tolar on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Tolar
About 40% 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.
Where the trip to work from Tolar ends
Where Tolar clocks in
16% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Tolar
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tolar, 2013 → 2023: 21 → 86. 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 Tolar’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Tolar: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tolar workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 513 commuters (the 10% 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.
For most of Tolar, work means a drive
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 570 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). 3.6% of Tolar households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tolar’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000, Tolar ranks 3,691st of 6,308 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 34 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,689 | Deltana AK | 1,997 | $92K | 12.8% | 5.0% | — | C |
| 3,690 | Cedarville AR | 1,458 | $60K | 9.5% | 1.7% | 4% | C |
| 3,691 | Tolar TX | 1,472 | $91K | 17.2% | 6.7% | <1% | C |
| 3,692 | Holland TX | 1,188 | $63K | 18.8% | 3.0% | 5% | C |
| 3,693 | Weesaw Township MI | 1,811 | $58K | 13.0% | 5.2% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Tolar, 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 Tolar: questions
What is the median household income in Tolar?
$91,250 (±$42,071) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tolar?
17.2%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tolar?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tolar work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Granbury (16%, 9 mi), Fort Worth (12%, 43 mi), Stephenville (3%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tolar walkable?
Tolar is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tolar without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tolar, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tolar
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.