Work means El Paso for about two in three of Vinton’s working residents
Only 4% work in Vinton itself; outside it, El Paso draws the most (66%, 12 miles). Vinton grades C+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Home is the office for 3% of workers, next to 14% for Texas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Vinton at work: what stands out
More than half of Vinton works in El Paso
589 working residents, 66%, have their main job in El Paso, 12 miles away. That’s 17 times as many as work in Vinton itself. The commute map ↓
Vinton makes and builds things
76% of the jobs based in Vinton are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Vinton residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 18%. The jobs ↓
Vinton is where the jobs are
Vinton has 1,392 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
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 896 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Vinton earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Vinton is better than 39% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Vinton’s grade up (ahead of 73% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (18.3%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (2.2%) is left out: Vinton’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Vinton could be anywhere from C− to B.
Commuting in to Vinton: where workers come from
Where Vinton clocks in
66% of workers
3% 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.
76% of the jobs in Vinton make or build things
1,392 jobs are based in Vinton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vinton, 2013 → 2023: 1,197 → 1,392. 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 Vinton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Vinton for work, and who comes in
On a workday 858 residents head out to work, 38 work right here, and 1,354 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,900 people are in Vinton on a workday afternoon, 20% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
About 25 minutes to work from Vinton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vinton workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 773 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Vinton
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 Vinton start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Vinton is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 799 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.8% of Vinton households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Vinton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Vinton is 2,903rd among 5,207 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Talty TX | 3,299 | $155K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Southside Place TX | 1,916 | $163K | 5.0% | 5.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,901 | West Union IA | 2,424 | $54K | 11.6% | 1.4% | 32% | C+ |
| 2,902 | Byrnes Mill MO | 3,183 | $99K | 21.1% | 9.8% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,903 | Vinton TX | 2,446 | $66K | 18.3% | 2.2% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,904 | Manhattan Township KS | 2,256 | $63K | 8.1% | 0.4% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,905 | Palatine NY | 3,227 | $70K | 13.7% | 2.4% | 7% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Vinton, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Around Vinton: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Anthony. Darker towns draw more of Vinton’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 Vinton: questions
What is the median household income in Vinton?
$65,991 (±$12,907) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vinton?
18.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vinton?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vinton work?
4% work in town.
Is Vinton walkable?
Vinton is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Vinton without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vinton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vinton
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.