Work & commute · Central Gardens

Work & commute in Central Gardens, TX

Most working residents leave Central Gardens for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Beaumont (22%), Port Arthur (12%) and Nederland (12%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

62 of 1,866 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 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 1,804 Central Gardens residents head out of town to work, 62 work right here, and 3,382 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Central Gardens.

1,804live here, work elsewhere

62live and work here

3,382work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Central Gardens goes to work

Beaumont10 mi away

22%411

Port Arthur9.7 mi away

12%222

Nederland1.8 mi away

12%220

Houston83.1 mi away

8%150

Port Neches4 mi away

4%70

Central Gardens (in town)right here

3%62

Groves6.9 mi away

2%32

Orange18.5 mi away

1%25

Vidor9.9 mi away

1%23

Deer Park68.7 mi away

1%20

Everywhere elseother towns and states

34%631

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

How far

How far Central Gardens commutes

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

56%

13%

29%

56%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

29%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Central Gardens is a job hub

1.85jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Central Gardens are

3,444 jobs are based in Central Gardens. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Central Gardens’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Central Gardens

3,444 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)62%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)19%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month75%

Jobs Central Gardens residents hold

1,866 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month64%

−2%

Jobs based in Central Gardens, 2013 → 2023: 3,509 → 3,444. 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.