Work & commute · Los Fresnos

Work & commute in Los Fresnos, TX

Most working residents leave Los Fresnos for work: only 14% work in town. The top destinations are Brownsville (28%), Harlingen (12%) and South Padre Island (4%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14%

417 of 3,072 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 2,655 Los Fresnos residents head out of town to work, 417 work right here, and 3,204 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Los Fresnos.

2,655live here, work elsewhere

417live and work here

3,204work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Los Fresnos goes to work

Brownsville5.9 mi away

28%856

Los Fresnos (in town)right here

14%417

Harlingen15.3 mi away

12%366

South Padre Island19.9 mi away

4%132

San Benito10.4 mi away

3%102

McAllen48.2 mi away

3%96

Houston286.6 mi away

2%74

Edinburg44.6 mi away

2%65

Weslaco31.6 mi away

2%58

Port Isabel11 mi away

2%56

Everywhere elseother towns and states

28%850

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

How far

How far Los Fresnos commutes

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

35%

11%

19%

35%Under 10 mi

35%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Los Fresnos is balanced between jobs and homes

1.18jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.18 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Los Fresnos are

3,621 jobs are based in Los Fresnos. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Los Fresnos’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Los Fresnos

3,621 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)89%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Los Fresnos residents hold

3,072 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month44%

+64%

Jobs based in Los Fresnos, 2013 → 2023: 2,206 → 3,621. 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.