Work & commute · Falcon Lake Estates

Work & commute in Falcon Lake Estates, TX

Most working residents leave Falcon Lake Estates for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Laredo (27%), Zapata (13%) and Rio Grande City (4%). Half commute less than 48 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

18 of 295 working residents

Typical commute

48 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 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 277 Falcon Lake Estates residents head out of town to work, 18 work right here, and 448 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Falcon Lake Estates.

277live here, work elsewhere

18live and work here

448work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Falcon Lake Estates goes to work

Laredo49.6 mi away

27%81

Zapata2.1 mi away

13%38

Falcon Lake Estates (in town)right here

6%18

Rio Grande City43.3 mi away

4%11

Corpus Christi141.8 mi away

4%11

San Antonio184.5 mi away

3%10

Medina4.3 mi away

3%10

McAllen76.9 mi away

3%8

Harlingen107.3 mi away

2%6

Houston309.7 mi away

2%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%96

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

How far

How far Falcon Lake Estates commutes

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

25%

29%

46%

25%Under 10 mi

0%10–24 mi

29%25–50 mi

46%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Falcon Lake Estates is a job hub

1.58jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Falcon Lake Estates are

466 jobs are based in Falcon Lake Estates. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Falcon Lake Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Falcon Lake Estates

466 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less51%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month12%

Jobs Falcon Lake Estates residents hold

295 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month37%

−33%

Jobs based in Falcon Lake Estates, 2013 → 2023: 700 → 466. 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.