Work & commute · Grand Prairie

Work & commute in Grand Prairie, TX

Most working residents leave Grand Prairie for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Dallas (20%), Arlington (12%) and Fort Worth (10%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

10,753 of 89,934 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 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 79,181 Grand Prairie residents head out of town to work, 10,753 work right here, and 68,876 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Grand Prairie.

79,181live here, work elsewhere

10,753live and work here

68,876work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Grand Prairie goes to work

Dallas16.8 mi away

20%18,238

Arlington6.2 mi away

12%11,129

Grand Prairie (in town)right here

12%10,753

Fort Worth20.3 mi away

10%9,253

Irving12.7 mi away

9%7,884

Grapevine18 mi away

2%2,215

Mansfield9.6 mi away

2%1,639

Plano30.2 mi away

2%1,599

Farmers Branch19.1 mi away

2%1,412

Carrollton22.6 mi away

2%1,360

Everywhere elseother towns and states

27%24,452

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

How far

How far Grand Prairie commutes

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

35%

48%

35%Under 10 mi

48%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Grand Prairie is balanced between jobs and homes

0.89jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.89 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Grand Prairie are

79,629 jobs are based in Grand Prairie. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Grand Prairie’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Grand Prairie

79,629 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities32%

Services (health, schools, offices…)39%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Grand Prairie residents hold

89,934 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+36%

Jobs based in Grand Prairie, 2013 → 2023: 58,703 → 79,629. 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.