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Work & commute · Blessing

Work & commute in Blessing, TX

Most working residents leave Blessing for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Houston (18%), Bay City (7%) and Austin (4%). Half commute less than 72 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
1%
4 of 268 working residents
Typical commute
72 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
— min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
0%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 264 Blessing residents head out of town to work, 4 work right here, and 107 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Blessing.

264live here, work elsewhere
4live and work here
107work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Blessing goes to work

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1
Houston80.3 mi away
18%48
2
Bay City17.3 mi away
7%19
3
Austin134.9 mi away
4%10
4
Point Comfort25.1 mi away
3%8
5
El Campo22.8 mi away
3%8
6
Palacios11.2 mi away
2%5
7
Wharton31.4 mi away
2%5
8
Sugar Land61 mi away
1%4
9
Victoria46.7 mi away
1%4
10
Pasadena83.8 mi away
1%4
Everywhere elseother towns and states
57%153

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

How far

How far Blessing commutes

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

6%Under 10 mi
22%10–24 mi
7%25–50 mi
65%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Blessing is a commuter town

0.41jobs per working resident
A commuter town

0.41 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Blessing are

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

Jobs based in Blessing

111 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)17%
Trade, transport & utilities54%
Services (health, schools, offices…)29%
$1,250 a month or less14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month31%
Over $3,333 a month56%

Jobs Blessing residents hold

268 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)31%
Trade, transport & utilities24%
Services (health, schools, offices…)45%
$1,250 a month or less16%
$1,251–$3,333 a month31%
Over $3,333 a month53%
+226%

Jobs based in Blessing, 2013 → 2023: 34 → 111. 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.

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