Work & commute · Lavon

Work & commute in Lavon, TX

Most working residents leave Lavon for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Dallas (17%), Plano (10%) and Richardson (7%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

19 of 3,149 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

34 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 3,130 Lavon residents head out of town to work, 19 work right here, and 187 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lavon.

3,130live here, work elsewhere

19live and work here

187work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lavon goes to work

Dallas25 mi away

17%527

Plano18.3 mi away

10%302

Richardson16.3 mi away

7%209

Wylie5.5 mi away

5%173

Garland13.9 mi away

5%166

Rockwall7.3 mi away

4%137

McKinney18.1 mi away

3%99

Irving33.1 mi away

3%94

Greenville19.7 mi away

2%78

Carrollton27.1 mi away

2%77

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%1,287

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

How far

How far Lavon commutes

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

19%

48%

24%

19%Under 10 mi

48%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lavon is a commuter town

0.07jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lavon are

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

Jobs based in Lavon

206 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities31%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month42%

Jobs Lavon residents hold

3,149 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month69%

−9%

Jobs based in Lavon, 2013 → 2023: 227 → 206. 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.