Tye’s household incomes are lower than in 90% of U.S. towns
2% of workers work from home (Texas 14%). Below the poverty line: 10.7% of residents; Texas has 13.8%. Jobs and income earn Tye C; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Tye and work: the main findings
More than half of Tye works in Abilene
292 working residents, 57%, have their main job in Abilene, 7.5 miles away across the town line. That’s 11 times as many as work in Tye itself. The commute map ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
61% of the jobs in Tye are in trade, transport and utilities, against 24% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Most Tye residents work close to home
65% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. 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 512 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Tye gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Tye is better than 27% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Tye’s grade up (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($48,421, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (0.7%) is left out: Tye’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, Tye could be anywhere from D to B.
57% of working residents work in Abilene
Where Tye clocks in
57% of workers
3% of workers
2% 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.
What Tye’s employers do
640 jobs are based in Tye.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tye, 2013 → 2023: 965 → 640. 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 Tye’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Tye goes to work
About 28% 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.
Who commutes out of Tye, and who commutes in
On a workday 486 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 614 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Tye on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.25 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.
A commute of about 21 minutes in Tye
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tye workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 440 commuters (the 2% 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.
Most trips from Tye start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tye is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.9% of 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 447 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). 3.5% of Tye households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tye’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Tye is 2,933rd among 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 27 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,931 | Kincaid IL | 1,310 | $65K | 15.5% | 9.5% | 4% | C |
| 2,932 | Nashville IN | 1,273 | $52K | 7.2% | 1.7% | 18% | C |
| 2,933 | Tye TX | 1,264 | $48K | 10.7% | 0.7% | 5% | C |
| 2,934 | Adams WI | 1,431 | $69K | 10.7% | 1.3% | 3% | C |
| 2,935 | Prineville Lake Acres OR | 1,497 | $80K | 10.7% | 4.3% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Tye, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Work next door: 57% of Tye’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Abilene. Darker towns draw more of Tye’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 Tye: questions
What is the median household income in Tye?
$48,421 (±$17,083) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tye?
10.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tye?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tye work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Abilene (57%, 8 mi), Merkel (3%, 8 mi), Austin (2%, 194 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tye walkable?
Tye is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tye 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 Tye, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tye
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.