Work & commute · Glenn Heights

Work & commute in Glenn Heights, TX

Most working residents leave Glenn Heights for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Dallas (35%), Irving (5%) and Fort Worth (5%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

51 of 7,985 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 7,934 Glenn Heights residents head out of town to work, 51 work right here, and 957 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Glenn Heights.

7,934live here, work elsewhere

51live and work here

957work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Glenn Heights goes to work

Dallas17.5 mi away

35%2,790

Irving22.2 mi away

5%425

Fort Worth32.9 mi away

5%373

Arlington18.8 mi away

5%368

DeSoto3.4 mi away

3%273

Grand Prairie13.1 mi away

3%217

Waxahachie10.3 mi away

2%187

Plano35.1 mi away

2%178

Lancaster5.6 mi away

2%176

Richardson30.3 mi away

2%173

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%2,825

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

How far

How far Glenn Heights commutes

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

17%

48%

25%

10%

17%Under 10 mi

48%10–24 mi

25%25–50 mi

10%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Glenn Heights is a commuter town

0.13jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Glenn Heights are

1,008 jobs are based in Glenn Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Glenn Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Glenn Heights

1,008 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities54%

Services (health, schools, offices…)41%

$1,250 a month or less28%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month33%

Jobs Glenn Heights residents hold

7,985 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+61%

Jobs based in Glenn Heights, 2013 → 2023: 625 → 1,008. 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.