Work & commute · Grandfalls

Work & commute in Grandfalls, TX

Most working residents leave Grandfalls for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Monahans (26%), Odessa (10%) and Midland (6%). Half commute less than 40 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 155 working residents

Typical commute

40 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

49 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 154 Grandfalls residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 148 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Grandfalls.

154live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

148work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Grandfalls goes to work

Monahans26.6 mi away

26%40

Odessa47.8 mi away

10%15

Midland64.3 mi away

6%9

Town of Pecos39.5 mi away

5%8

Southwest Sandhill15.3 mi away

5%8

El Paso213.4 mi away

3%5

Fort Stockton31 mi away

2%3

Lubbock163.5 mi away

2%3

Dallas370.3 mi away

1%2

Houston456.9 mi away

1%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%60

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

How far

How far Grandfalls commutes

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

38%

25%

36%

1%Under 10 mi

38%10–24 mi

25%25–50 mi

36%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Grandfalls is balanced between jobs and homes

0.96jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.96 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Grandfalls are

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

Jobs based in Grandfalls

149 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)31%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Grandfalls residents hold

155 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)34%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+89%

Jobs based in Grandfalls, 2013 → 2023: 79 → 149. 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.