Work & commute · La Homa

Work & commute in La Homa, TX

Most working residents leave La Homa for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are McAllen (21%), Mission (14%) and Edinburg (9%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

41 of 3,159 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 3,118 La Homa residents head out of town to work, 41 work right here, and 357 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in La Homa.

3,118live here, work elsewhere

41live and work here

357work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where La Homa goes to work

McAllen7.9 mi away

21%662

Mission5.6 mi away

14%458

Edinburg12.9 mi away

9%269

Pharr12.9 mi away

6%178

La Joya7.4 mi away

4%139

Palmview3.6 mi away

3%101

Houston302.4 mi away

3%90

Brownsville58 mi away

2%64

San Antonio220.2 mi away

2%58

Corpus Christi125.3 mi away

2%54

Everywhere elseother towns and states

34%1,086

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

How far

How far La Homa commutes

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

47%

24%

25%

47%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

25%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

La Homa 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 La Homa are

398 jobs are based in La Homa. Here is what they are, next to the jobs La Homa’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in La Homa

398 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities32%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less34%

$1,251–$3,333 a month51%

Over $3,333 a month15%

Jobs La Homa residents hold

3,159 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month36%

−37%

Jobs based in La Homa, 2013 → 2023: 630 → 398. 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.