Work & commute · La Villa

Work & commute in La Villa, TX

Most working residents leave La Villa for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Edinburg (10%), McAllen (9%) and Weslaco (8%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

38 of 728 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 690 La Villa residents head out of town to work, 38 work right here, and 660 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in La Villa.

690live here, work elsewhere

38live and work here

660work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where La Villa goes to work

Edinburg14.1 mi away

10%70

McAllen20.4 mi away

9%67

Weslaco10.1 mi away

8%61

Harlingen16 mi away

5%40

La Villa (in town)right here

5%38

Elsa4.1 mi away

4%29

Houston286.5 mi away

3%22

Corpus Christi110.9 mi away

3%21

Brownsville34.9 mi away

3%21

Mercedes9.9 mi away

2%18

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%341

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

How far

How far La Villa commutes

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

21%

45%

27%

21%Under 10 mi

45%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

La Villa is balanced between jobs and homes

0.96jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.96 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in La Villa are

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

Jobs based in La Villa

698 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities0%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs La Villa residents hold

728 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month37%

+2307%

Jobs based in La Villa, 2013 → 2023: 29 → 698. 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.