Work & commute · Whitesboro

Work & commute in Whitesboro, TX

Most working residents leave Whitesboro for work: only 13% work in town. The top destinations are Gainesville (10%), Sherman (8%) and Dallas (6%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13%

238 of 1,851 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 1,613 Whitesboro residents head out of town to work, 238 work right here, and 1,248 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Whitesboro.

1,613live here, work elsewhere

238live and work here

1,248work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Whitesboro goes to work

Whitesboro (in town)right here

13%238

Gainesville14.1 mi away

10%191

Sherman16.1 mi away

8%152

Dallas60.4 mi away

6%119

Denton33.5 mi away

3%58

Plano43 mi away

3%55

Denison20 mi away

3%49

McKinney34.6 mi away

2%43

Fort Worth65.9 mi away

2%35

Frisco35.1 mi away

2%30

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%881

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

How far

How far Whitesboro commutes

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

21%

30%

24%

25%

21%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

25%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Whitesboro 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 Whitesboro are

1,486 jobs are based in Whitesboro. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Whitesboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Whitesboro

1,486 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Whitesboro residents hold

1,851 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+22%

Jobs based in Whitesboro, 2013 → 2023: 1,215 → 1,486. 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.