Work & commute · Balcones Heights

Work & commute in Balcones Heights, TX

Most working residents leave Balcones Heights for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are San Antonio (63%), Austin (5%) and Houston (3%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

29 of 1,200 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 1,171 Balcones Heights residents head out of town to work, 29 work right here, and 2,423 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Balcones Heights.

1,171live here, work elsewhere

29live and work here

2,423work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Balcones Heights goes to work

San Antonio2.4 mi away

63%753

Austin73.4 mi away

5%64

Houston190.9 mi away

3%37

Balcones Heights (in town)right here

2%29

Leon Valley3.9 mi away

2%24

Dallas251.4 mi away

2%20

Schertz18.6 mi away

1%17

New Braunfels29.8 mi away

1%16

Irving250.7 mi away

1%10

Fort Worth238.3 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

18%221

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

How far

How far Balcones Heights commutes

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

64%

12%

21%

64%Under 10 mi

12%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Balcones Heights is a job hub

2.04jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.0 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Balcones Heights are

2,452 jobs are based in Balcones Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Balcones Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Balcones Heights

2,452 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Balcones Heights residents hold

1,200 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month42%

−43%

Jobs based in Balcones Heights, 2013 → 2023: 4,293 → 2,452. 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.