Whitesboro has lower unemployment (2.2%) than 82% of U.S. towns
For 6% of workers, the job is at home (Texas 14%). Jobs and income earn Whitesboro B−; getting around on foot earns it A−. About one in seven work in Whitesboro; the top destination outside it is Gainesville (9%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Whitesboro
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Whitesboro is better than 47% of U.S. towns, #311 of 642 in Texas. Unemployment holds Whitesboro’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (16.5%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Whitesboro could be anywhere from C− to B+.
A workday in Whitesboro: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,702 residents head out to work, 263 work right here, and 1,338 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 (0.81 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Whitesboro goes to work
Where Whitesboro clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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 1,601 jobs based in Whitesboro
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Whitesboro, 2014 → 2024: 1,275 → 1,601. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Whitesboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes to work from Whitesboro
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Whitesboro workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,846 commuters (the 6% 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 Whitesboro
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Whitesboro
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Whitesboro is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns, #64 of 642 in Texas. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,966 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). 5.0% of Whitesboro households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Whitesboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Whitesboro is 2,298th among 4,195 U.S. towns of 2,900 to 5,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| 4 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 5 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,296 | Oxford MI | 3,451 | $84K | 9.9% | 10.9% | 7% | B− |
| 2,297 | Penbrook PA | 3,243 | $62K | 7.4% | 8.8% | 1% | B− |
| 2,298 | Whitesboro TX | 4,188 | $70K | 16.5% | 2.2% | 13% | B− |
| 2,299 | Orchard Homes MT | 5,588 | $65K | 8.7% | 4.7% | 4% | B− |
| 2,300 | Moundville AL | 3,628 | $73K | 17.6% | 2.2% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,195 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Whitesboro, 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 2024, 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 Whitesboro: questions
What is the median household income in Whitesboro?
$70,134 (±$20,477) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Whitesboro?
16.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Whitesboro?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Whitesboro work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gainesville (9%, 14 mi), Sherman (8%, 16 mi), Dallas (7%, 60 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Whitesboro walkable?
Whitesboro is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Whitesboro without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Whitesboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Whitesboro
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.