Work & commute · Helotes

Work & commute in Helotes, TX

Most working residents leave Helotes for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are San Antonio (60%), Leon Valley (9%) and Austin (4%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

74 of 4,309 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

21%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,235 Helotes residents head out of town to work, 74 work right here, and 2,301 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Helotes.

4,235live here, work elsewhere

74live and work here

2,301work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Helotes goes to work

San Antonio12.3 mi away

60%2,581

Leon Valley7 mi away

9%402

Austin74.5 mi away

4%181

Houston198.1 mi away

2%92

Helotes (in town)right here

2%74

Dallas249.3 mi away

1%57

Boerne14.6 mi away

1%41

New Braunfels35 mi away

1%28

Castle Hills10.4 mi away

1%26

Shavano Park7.5 mi away

1%22

Everywhere elseother towns and states

19%805

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

How far

How far Helotes commutes

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

47%

33%

17%

47%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Helotes is a commuter town

0.55jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Helotes are

2,375 jobs are based in Helotes. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Helotes’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Helotes

2,375 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities29%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Helotes residents hold

4,309 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month70%

+49%

Jobs based in Helotes, 2013 → 2023: 1,595 → 2,375. 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.