With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Whitewright works elsewhere
Whitewright has 400 jobs, and 784 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Whitewright is better than 25% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (D). Measured by household income, Whitewright is behind 77% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Whitewright, in brief
Inside Whitewright’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Whitewright’s grade up (ahead of 53% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (4.7%) is left out: Whitewright’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, Whitewright could be anywhere from D to B−.
The daily trip from Whitewright: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Whitewright workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 648 commuters (the 8% 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.
In and out of Whitewright on a workday
On a workday 755 residents head out to work, 29 work right here, and 371 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Whitewright on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
15% of working residents work in Sherman
Where Whitewright clocks in
15% of workers
7% 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.
Jobs in Whitewright: what the 400 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Whitewright, 2013 → 2023: 152 → 400. 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 Whitewright’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Whitewright’s workers travel
About 25% 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.
Getting around Whitewright: mostly by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 707 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). 6.6% of Whitewright households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Whitewright’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400, Whitewright comes 3,985th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,983 | Preston MN | 1,318 | $64K | 8.9% | 3.4% | 16% | C− |
| 3,984 | Moravia NY | 1,233 | $63K | 10.6% | 4.4% | 16% | C− |
| 3,985 | Whitewright TX | 1,749 | $58K | 16.8% | 4.7% | 4% | C− |
| 3,986 | Wales ME | 1,673 | $77K | 25.3% | 4.7% | 2% | C− |
| 3,987 | Haines Township PA | 1,595 | $77K | 15.0% | 3.4% | 4% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Whitewright, 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 Whitewright: questions
What is the median household income in Whitewright?
$57,692 (±$12,802) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Whitewright?
16.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Whitewright?
34 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Whitewright work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sherman (15%, 16 mi), McKinney (7%, 26 mi), Plano (6%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Whitewright walkable?
Whitewright is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Whitewright without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Whitewright, from the people who make the trip.
More of Whitewright
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.