St. John the Baptist Catholic Church · Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Weimar trail those of 90% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Weimar are C for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Poverty touches 8.1% of residents, against 13.8% across Texas. For 2% of workers, the job is at home, 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
Where Weimar stands out on work
Weimar’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Weimar is Houston, 84 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (135) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
44% 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 ↓
Weimar makes and builds things
39% of the jobs based in Weimar are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Weimar residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 28%. 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 943 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Weimar earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Weimar is better than 34% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Weimar’s grade up (3.0%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($47,548, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Weimar could be anywhere from D to B.
How far Weimar goes to work
About 44% 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.
Weimar works in goods: 39% of its jobs
1,247 jobs are based in Weimar.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Weimar, 2013 → 2023: 1,362 → 1,247. 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 Weimar’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Weimar by day
On a workday 750 residents head out to work, 193 work right here, and 1,054 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Weimar on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.32 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 people from Weimar work
Where Weimar clocks in
14% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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.
The daily trip from Weimar: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Weimar workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,339 commuters (the 1% 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 of Weimar commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Weimar is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Weimar 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 1,359 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). 11.5% of Weimar households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Weimar’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,641 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 3,000, Weimar comes 3,310th on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Southside Place TX | 1,916 | $163K | 5.0% | 5.4% | 2% | A+ |
| 26 | Shoreacres TX | 1,535 | $131K | 3.2% | 2.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,308 | Ruhenstroth NV | 1,682 | $105K | 14.1% | 0.4% | 1% | C |
| 3,309 | Bridgman MI | 2,040 | $67K | 14.5% | 2.4% | 9% | C |
| 3,310 | Weimar TX | 2,197 | $48K | 8.1% | 3.0% | 20% | C |
| 3,311 | Morrisville VT | 2,404 | $68K | 17.8% | 2.8% | 18% | C |
| 3,312 | Theresa NY | 2,572 | $70K | 11.1% | 3.2% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,641 | 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 Weimar, 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 Weimar: questions
What is the median household income in Weimar?
$47,548 (±$14,815) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Weimar?
8.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Weimar?
22 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Weimar work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (14%, 84 mi), Schulenburg (8%, 8 mi), Columbus (6%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Weimar walkable?
Weimar is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Weimar without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Weimar, from the people who make the trip.
More of Weimar
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.