Work & commute · Bells

Work & commute in Bells, TX

Most working residents leave Bells for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Sherman (20%), Denison (13%) and Dallas (5%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

30 of 616 working residents

Typical commute

25 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 586 Bells residents head out of town to work, 30 work right here, and 348 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bells.

586live here, work elsewhere

30live and work here

348work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bells goes to work

Sherman12.3 mi away

20%123

Denison14.2 mi away

13%83

Bells (in town)right here

5%30

Dallas60.4 mi away

5%30

McKinney32.2 mi away

4%22

Plano43.6 mi away

3%21

Fort Worth79.1 mi away

3%19

Bonham13 mi away

2%14

Richardson47.7 mi away

2%11

Durant, OK26.2 mi away

2%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%253

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Bells commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

42%

18%

32%

8%Under 10 mi

42%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

32%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bells is a commuter town

0.61jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.61 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Bells are

378 jobs are based in Bells. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bells’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Bells

378 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)85%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month65%

Jobs Bells residents hold

616 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+30%

Jobs based in Bells, 2013 → 2023: 291 → 378. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.