Work & commute · Quitaque

Work & commute in Quitaque, TX

Most working residents leave Quitaque for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Silverton (14%), Amarillo (9%) and Canyon (8%). Half commute less than 65 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

8 of 103 working residents

Typical commute

65 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

13 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 95 Quitaque residents head out of town to work, 8 work right here, and 74 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Quitaque.

95live here, work elsewhere

8live and work here

74work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Quitaque goes to work

Silverton15.9 mi away

14%14

Amarillo72.4 mi away

9%9

Quitaque (in town)right here

8%8

Canyon65.3 mi away

8%8

Lockney27.8 mi away

5%5

Floydada31 mi away

5%5

Lubbock73.3 mi away

4%4

Austin340.8 mi away

3%3

Clarendon40.4 mi away

2%2

Tulia42.6 mi away

2%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%43

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

How far

How far Quitaque commutes

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

16%

20%

57%

8%Under 10 mi

16%10–24 mi

20%25–50 mi

57%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Quitaque is balanced between jobs and homes

0.80jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Quitaque are

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

Jobs based in Quitaque

82 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)35%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)48%

$1,250 a month or less29%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month28%

Jobs Quitaque residents hold

103 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month48%

+128%

Jobs based in Quitaque, 2013 → 2023: 36 → 82. 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.