Work & commute · Escobares

Work & commute in Escobares, TX

Most working residents leave Escobares for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Roma (19%), Rio Grande City (10%) and McAllen (8%). Half commute less than 47 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12 of 695 working residents

Typical commute

47 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 683 Escobares residents head out of town to work, 12 work right here, and 164 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Escobares.

683live here, work elsewhere

12live and work here

164work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Escobares goes to work

Roma2.6 mi away

19%129

Rio Grande City8.8 mi away

10%71

McAllen46.1 mi away

8%58

Edinburg50.4 mi away

5%34

Laredo85.7 mi away

4%29

San Antonio212.4 mi away

3%20

Mission41.9 mi away

3%18

Brownsville96.3 mi away

2%17

Pharr50.5 mi away

2%16

Harlingen79.7 mi away

2%16

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%287

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

How far

How far Escobares commutes

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

29%

10%

21%

41%

29%Under 10 mi

10%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

41%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Escobares is a commuter town

0.25jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Escobares are

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

Jobs based in Escobares

176 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities75%

Services (health, schools, offices…)24%

$1,250 a month or less32%

$1,251–$3,333 a month49%

Over $3,333 a month19%

Jobs Escobares residents hold

695 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month32%

+117%

Jobs based in Escobares, 2013 → 2023: 81 → 176. 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.