Work & commute · Devers

Work & commute in Devers, TX

Most working residents leave Devers for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Houston (23%), Liberty (13%) and Baytown (4%). Half commute less than 45 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

4 of 159 working residents

Typical commute

45 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

35 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 155 Devers residents head out of town to work, 4 work right here, and 212 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Devers.

155live here, work elsewhere

4live and work here

212work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Devers goes to work

Houston50.9 mi away

23%36

Liberty12.2 mi away

13%21

Baytown29.2 mi away

4%6

Beaumont26.6 mi away

4%6

Pasadena42.6 mi away

3%5

Devers (in town)right here

3%4

Mont Belvieu21.2 mi away

3%4

La Porte37.3 mi away

3%4

Austin190.2 mi away

3%4

Dallas230.2 mi away

2%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%66

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

How far

How far Devers commutes

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

20%

30%

46%

4%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

30%25–50 mi

46%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Devers is balanced between jobs and homes

1.36jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.36 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Devers are

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

Jobs based in Devers

216 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)89%

$1,250 a month or less44%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month28%

Jobs Devers residents hold

159 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month59%

−55%

Jobs based in Devers, 2013 → 2023: 478 → 216. 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.