Photo: Nicolas Henderson from Coppell, Texas · CC BY 2.0Jobs and earnings in Wink, and the trip to work
Only 2% work in Wink itself; outside it, Kermit draws the most (13%, 8 miles). Home is the office for 1% of workers, next to 14% for Texas as a whole. Commuters spend 21 minutes getting to work on average, where Texas has 27 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Wink, in brief
A big share show a job far from home
54% 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 ↓
Few Wink workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Wink are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
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 332 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Near or far: the trip to work from Wink
About 54% 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.
About 21 minutes each way for Wink’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wink workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 653 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.
Wink on a workday afternoon
On a workday 324 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 183 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Wink on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.58 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Where the trip to work from Wink ends
Where Wink clocks in
13% of workers
12% 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.
Goods, not services: 36% of the jobs in Wink
191 jobs are based in Wink.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wink, 2013 → 2023: 199 → 191. 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 Wink’s own residents hold wherever they work.
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 Wink: questions
What is the median household income in Wink?
$103,472 (±$23,676) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wink?
13.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wink?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wink work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kermit (13%, 8 mi), Midland (12%, 64 mi), Odessa (6%, 48 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wink without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wink, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wink
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.