Work & commute · Giddings

Work & commute in Giddings, TX

About one in 4 of Giddings’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Austin (12%), San Antonio (4%) and Houston (4%). Half commute less than 41 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

26%

602 of 2,324 working residents

Typical commute

41 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,722 Giddings residents head out of town to work, 602 work right here, and 3,278 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Giddings.

1,722live here, work elsewhere

602live and work here

3,278work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Giddings goes to work

Giddings (in town)right here

26%602

Austin49.9 mi away

12%268

San Antonio107.9 mi away

4%92

Houston96.1 mi away

4%85

Bastrop24.3 mi away

2%50

Dallas180.6 mi away

2%44

La Grange19 mi away

1%33

Round Rock49.8 mi away

1%27

Elgin30.1 mi away

1%25

Bryan46.6 mi away

1%25

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%1,073

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

How far

How far Giddings commutes

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

37%

20%

36%

37%Under 10 mi

8%10–24 mi

20%25–50 mi

36%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Giddings is a job hub

1.67jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Giddings are

3,880 jobs are based in Giddings. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Giddings’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Giddings

3,880 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)34%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month65%

Jobs Giddings residents hold

2,324 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month57%

−10%

Jobs based in Giddings, 2013 → 2023: 4,304 → 3,880. 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.