Work & commute · Gunter

Work & commute in Gunter, TX

Most working residents leave Gunter for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Sherman (16%), McKinney (7%) and Plano (6%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

37 of 832 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 795 Gunter residents head out of town to work, 37 work right here, and 545 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Gunter.

795live here, work elsewhere

37live and work here

545work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Gunter goes to work

Sherman18.5 mi away

16%131

McKinney17.4 mi away

7%55

Plano25.6 mi away

6%51

Denison27.9 mi away

6%50

Frisco18 mi away

6%48

Dallas43.2 mi away

6%48

Gunter (in town)right here

4%37

Prosper12.1 mi away

3%24

Fort Worth53.4 mi away

3%23

Celina6.6 mi away

2%20

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%345

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

How far

How far Gunter commutes

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

11%

46%

28%

15%

11%Under 10 mi

46%10–24 mi

28%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Gunter is a commuter town

0.70jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Gunter are

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

Jobs based in Gunter

582 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Gunter residents hold

832 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month65%

−26%

Jobs based in Gunter, 2013 → 2023: 785 → 582. 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.