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Work & commute in Box Canyon · A commuter town

100% of Box Canyon’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Box Canyon for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Del Rio (60%), San Antonio (10%) and Conroe (10%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 10 working residents
Typical commute
20 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Work from home
0%
Less than TX (14%)
Jobs based here
0
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Box Canyon?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

60% of working residents work in Del Rio

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Del Rio: 6 residents work here (60%)San Antonio: 1 residents work here (10%)Conroe: 1 residents work here (10%)Box CanyonAmistadDel RioSan AntonioConroeBox Canyon
1
Del Rio20 mi away
60%6
2
San Antonio158.5 mi away
10%1
3
Conroe344.1 mi away
10%1
Everywhere elseother towns and states
20%2
The top trips

Where Box Canyon clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Day and night

Box Canyon quiets down on a workday

On a workday 10 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.

10live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
0work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night19
Workday9
19live here− 10head out to work+ 0come in to work= 9on a workday

About 9 people are in Box Canyon on a workday afternoon, 53% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.00jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Box Canyon commutes less than 20 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miDel Rio: 60% · 20 miSan Antonio: 10% · 158.5 miConroe: 10% · 344.1 miDel Rio 60%San Antonio 10%Conroe 10%Box Canyon
Box CanyonTop destinations (size = commuters)
0%Under 10 mi0 residents
60%10–24 mi6 residents
0%25–50 mi0 residents
40%Over 50 mi4 residents

About 40% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

Time on the road

Working from home in Box Canyon

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

Working from home
0%

of Box Canyon workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.

About 0 in 10
Next door

Box Canyon and the towns next door

Darker towns draw more of Box Canyon’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

Amistad: few work hereAmistadBox Canyon
10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%
How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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