Of important note, Marfa is also a city of artists. Marfa has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Marfa’s character.
Also of interest is that Marfa has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Marfa telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.61% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Marfa’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Marfa has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Marfa has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Marfa than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Marfa may be for you.
One of the benefits of Marfa is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 9.01 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small city, Marfa does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
