Work & commute · Mount Vernon

Work & commute in Mount Vernon, TX

Most working residents leave Mount Vernon for work: only 16% work in town. The top destinations are Mount Pleasant (16%), Sulphur Springs (8%) and Dallas (3%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16%

157 of 966 working residents

Typical commute

21 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 809 Mount Vernon residents head out of town to work, 157 work right here, and 1,205 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mount Vernon.

809live here, work elsewhere

157live and work here

1,205work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mount Vernon goes to work

Mount Vernon (in town)right here

16%157

Mount Pleasant14.5 mi away

16%153

Sulphur Springs22.7 mi away

8%76

Dallas93.2 mi away

3%31

Paris38.7 mi away

3%26

Winnsboro15.8 mi away

3%25

Tyler59.6 mi away

2%17

Houston234.5 mi away

2%16

Longview52.8 mi away

2%15

Texarkana68.4 mi away

1%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%436

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

How far

How far Mount Vernon commutes

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

26%

33%

26%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mount Vernon is balanced between jobs and homes

1.41jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.41 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mount Vernon are

1,362 jobs are based in Mount Vernon. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mount Vernon’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mount Vernon

1,362 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month39%

Jobs Mount Vernon residents hold

966 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+32%

Jobs based in Mount Vernon, 2013 → 2023: 1,028 → 1,362. 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.