Work & commute · Hilltop Lakes

Work & commute in Hilltop Lakes, TX

Most working residents leave Hilltop Lakes for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Houston (13%), Bryan (10%) and College Station (7%). Half commute less than 46 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17 of 488 working residents

Typical commute

46 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

35 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 471 Hilltop Lakes residents head out of town to work, 17 work right here, and 87 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Hilltop Lakes.

471live here, work elsewhere

17live and work here

87work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Hilltop Lakes goes to work

Houston100.4 mi away

13%63

Bryan29.7 mi away

10%47

College Station33.6 mi away

7%33

Austin106.9 mi away

4%21

Centerville18.4 mi away

4%18

Madisonville18.3 mi away

4%18

Hilltop Lakes (in town)right here

3%17

Normangee5 mi away

3%15

Huntsville45.3 mi away

3%14

Dallas124.2 mi away

2%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%234

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

How far

How far Hilltop Lakes commutes

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

10%

15%

28%

47%

10%Under 10 mi

15%10–24 mi

28%25–50 mi

47%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Hilltop Lakes is a commuter town

0.21jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Hilltop Lakes are

104 jobs are based in Hilltop Lakes. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hilltop Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Hilltop Lakes

104 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)96%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Hilltop Lakes residents hold

488 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+21%

Jobs based in Hilltop Lakes, 2013 → 2023: 86 → 104. 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.