Work & commute · Fabens

Work & commute in Fabens, TX

Most working residents leave Fabens for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are El Paso (47%), Horizon City (4%) and Socorro (3%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

123 of 1,583 working residents

Typical commute

21 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 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 1,460 Fabens residents head out of town to work, 123 work right here, and 1,190 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fabens.

1,460live here, work elsewhere

123live and work here

1,190work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fabens goes to work

El Paso28.7 mi away

47%750

Fabens (in town)right here

8%123

Horizon City11.7 mi away

4%61

Socorro11 mi away

3%48

Tornillo5.9 mi away

2%33

San Antonio474.7 mi away

2%26

Las Cruces, NM67.8 mi away

1%17

Midland238.8 mi away

1%17

Houston649.6 mi away

1%16

Albuquerque, NM249.6 mi away

1%12

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%480

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

How far

How far Fabens commutes

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

18%

44%

19%

18%

18%Under 10 mi

44%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fabens is balanced between jobs and homes

0.83jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.83 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Fabens are

1,313 jobs are based in Fabens. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fabens’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Fabens

1,313 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities49%

Services (health, schools, offices…)39%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs Fabens residents hold

1,583 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month37%

+146%

Jobs based in Fabens, 2013 → 2023: 533 → 1,313. 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.