Work & commute · El Lago

Work & commute in El Lago, TX

Most working residents leave El Lago for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Houston (34%), League City (7%) and Pasadena (6%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13 of 1,300 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,287 El Lago residents head out of town to work, 13 work right here, and 235 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in El Lago.

1,287live here, work elsewhere

13live and work here

235work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where El Lago goes to work

Houston25.4 mi away

34%447

League City6.8 mi away

7%93

Pasadena8.6 mi away

6%80

Webster5.1 mi away

4%51

Deer Park9.3 mi away

3%43

Seabrook3.5 mi away

3%41

La Porte6.6 mi away

3%33

Baytown14.2 mi away

2%31

Nassau Bay3.1 mi away

2%25

Kemah3.1 mi away

1%16

Everywhere elseother towns and states

34%440

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

How far

How far El Lago commutes

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

40%

29%

18%

12%

40%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

El Lago is a commuter town

0.19jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in El Lago are

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

Jobs based in El Lago

248 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities7%

Services (health, schools, offices…)85%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs El Lago residents hold

1,300 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month67%

−23%

Jobs based in El Lago, 2013 → 2023: 322 → 248. 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.