Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Vidor has higher unemployment (7.4%) than 85% of U.S. towns
3% of workers have no commute at all, where Texas as a whole has 14%. Jobs and income earn Vidor C; getting around on foot earns it C. About one in seven work in Vidor; the top destination outside it is Beaumont (25%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Vidor: the gist
Vidor trades workers with the towns around it
Vidor has about as many jobs (4,477) as working residents (4,128), but they are mostly different people: 3,431 residents leave for work each day while 3,780 people come in. Only 16% of the jobs in Vidor are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Vidor and Beaumont trade workers both ways
Beaumont is the top workplace for Vidor residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Vidor come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Vidor 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.
The four measures behind Vidor’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Vidor is better than 34% of U.S. towns, #398 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds Vidor’s grade up (ahead of 64% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Vidor could be anywhere from C− to B.
The workday shuffle in and out of Vidor
On a workday 3,431 residents head out to work, 697 work right here, and 3,780 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 (1.08 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.
The places Vidor commutes to
Where Vidor clocks in
25% of workers
8% of workers
5% 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.
Commuting from Vidor: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vidor workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,557 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.
The 4,477 jobs based in Vidor
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vidor, 2013 → 2023: 4,012 → 4,477. 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 Vidor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Vidor
About 29% 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.
Most trips from Vidor start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Vidor is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns, #430 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place Vidor near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,706 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). 5.8% of Vidor households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Vidor’s commuters take a bus or train.
Vidor is 2,090th of 2,816 U.S. towns of 6,700 to 13,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Alamo Heights TX | 7,632 | $183K | 2.5% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Oak Point TX | 6,909 | $126K | 1.5% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,088 | Ross IN | 6,751 | $55K | 18.4% | 5.6% | 3% | C |
| 2,089 | Pontiac IL | 10,806 | $61K | 13.1% | 4.2% | 32% | C |
| 2,090 | Vidor TX | 9,597 | $62K | 10.7% | 7.4% | 17% | C |
| 2,091 | Sauk Village IL | 9,624 | $70K | 17.6% | 12.6% | 3% | C |
| 2,092 | Knoxville IA | 7,469 | $62K | 12.5% | 4.8% | 29% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,816 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Vidor, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
The towns around Vidor
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Vidor workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vidor | – | C | C | 24 min | $62,192 |
| Rose City | under 1% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Mauriceville | under 1% | C− | D− | 32 min | $64,167 |
Same-state neighbors only. Rose City: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Vidor’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 Vidor: questions
What is the median household income in Vidor?
$62,192 (±$13,168) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vidor?
10.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vidor?
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 Vidor work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Beaumont (25%, 10 mi), Houston (8%, 87 mi), Port Arthur (5%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Vidor walkable?
Vidor is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Vidor without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vidor, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vidor
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.