Work & commute · Benavides

Work & commute in Benavides, TX

Most working residents leave Benavides for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Corpus Christi (12%), Alice (11%) and Houston (7%). Half commute less than 60 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

31 of 349 working residents

Typical commute

60 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 318 Benavides residents head out of town to work, 31 work right here, and 805 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Benavides.

318live here, work elsewhere

31live and work here

805work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Benavides goes to work

Corpus Christi76.7 mi away

12%42

Alice24 mi away

11%38

Benavides (in town)right here

9%31

Houston237.7 mi away

7%25

San Diego15.6 mi away

6%22

Kingsville34.4 mi away

4%14

San Antonio129.1 mi away

3%12

Laredo65.9 mi away

3%10

Victoria121.6 mi away

3%9

Ben Bolt20 mi away

2%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%138

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

How far

How far Benavides commutes

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

26%

11%

53%

9%Under 10 mi

26%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

53%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Benavides is a job hub

2.40jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Benavides are

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

Jobs based in Benavides

836 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities2%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less46%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month18%

Jobs Benavides residents hold

349 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month47%

+6867%

Jobs based in Benavides, 2013 → 2023: 12 → 836. 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.