Work & commute · Lake Dallas

Work & commute in Lake Dallas, TX

Most working residents leave Lake Dallas for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Dallas (14%), Denton (10%) and Lewisville (8%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

88 of 4,000 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,912 Lake Dallas residents head out of town to work, 88 work right here, and 1,430 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lake Dallas.

3,912live here, work elsewhere

88live and work here

1,430work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lake Dallas goes to work

Dallas27.5 mi away

14%560

Denton9.2 mi away

10%392

Lewisville6.1 mi away

8%303

Plano16.8 mi away

6%229

Irving18.9 mi away

6%227

Fort Worth30.5 mi away

5%180

Flower Mound8.2 mi away

4%167

Carrollton11.9 mi away

4%141

Grapevine13.7 mi away

3%124

Frisco11.7 mi away

3%122

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%1,555

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

How far

How far Lake Dallas commutes

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

27%

52%

13%

27%Under 10 mi

52%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lake Dallas is a commuter town

0.38jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lake Dallas are

1,518 jobs are based in Lake Dallas. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lake Dallas’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lake Dallas

1,518 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month63%

Jobs Lake Dallas residents hold

4,000 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+25%

Jobs based in Lake Dallas, 2013 → 2023: 1,218 → 1,518. 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.