Earning a living in Wickett
A typical one-way commute lasts 19 minutes, next to 27 for Texas and 26 for the U.S. Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers; Texas has 14%. Hardly any stay in Wickett for work; outside it, Monahans is the main destination (22%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Wickett by day
On a workday 178 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 150 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 (0.84 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 Wickett work
Where Wickett clocks in
22% 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.
Goods, not services: 43% of the jobs in Wickett
150 jobs are based in Wickett.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wickett, 2013 → 2023: 39 → 150. 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 Wickett’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Wickett spends getting to work: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wickett workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 199 commuters (the 4% 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.
How far Wickett’s workers travel
About 42% 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.
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 Wickett: questions
What is the median household income in Wickett?
$57,109 (±$20,239) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wickett?
4.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wickett?
19 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wickett work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Monahans (22%, 9 mi), Southwest Sandhill (10%, 6 mi), Odessa (8%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wickett 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 Wickett, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wickett
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.