Work & commute · New Braunfels

Work & commute in New Braunfels, TX

About one in 4 of New Braunfels’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are San Antonio (22%), Austin (8%) and San Marcos (6%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

26%

11,814 of 44,671 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 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 32,857 New Braunfels residents head out of town to work, 11,814 work right here, and 32,847 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in New Braunfels.

32,857live here, work elsewhere

11,814live and work here

32,847work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where New Braunfels goes to work

New Braunfels (in town)right here

26%11,814

San Antonio29.5 mi away

22%9,687

Austin46.7 mi away

8%3,770

San Marcos16.1 mi away

6%2,461

Seguin11.6 mi away

4%1,602

Houston163.7 mi away

3%1,337

Schertz12.4 mi away

2%1,092

Dallas228.1 mi away

1%390

Live Oak16.8 mi away

1%338

Canyon Lake15 mi away

1%296

Everywhere elseother towns and states

27%11,884

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

How far

How far New Braunfels commutes

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

31%

23%

26%

19%

31%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

26%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

New Braunfels is balanced between jobs and homes

1.00jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.00 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in New Braunfels are

44,661 jobs are based in New Braunfels. Here is what they are, next to the jobs New Braunfels’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in New Braunfels

44,661 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs New Braunfels residents hold

44,671 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+63%

Jobs based in New Braunfels, 2013 → 2023: 27,400 → 44,661. 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.