Work & commute · Oyster Creek

Work & commute in Oyster Creek, TX

Most working residents leave Oyster Creek for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Houston (22%), Clute (8%) and Lake Jackson (8%). Half commute less than 40 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

18 of 450 working residents

Typical commute

40 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 432 Oyster Creek residents head out of town to work, 18 work right here, and 2,004 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Oyster Creek.

432live here, work elsewhere

18live and work here

2,004work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Oyster Creek goes to work

Houston54.4 mi away

22%100

Clute4.7 mi away

8%35

Lake Jackson8.3 mi away

8%35

Freeport4.4 mi away

7%31

Oyster Creek (in town)right here

4%18

Angleton13.4 mi away

2%11

Galveston25.2 mi away

2%10

Pasadena46.4 mi away

2%9

Sugar Land45 mi away

2%7

Surfside Beach4 mi away

1%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%188

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

How far

How far Oyster Creek commutes

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

34%

26%

33%

34%Under 10 mi

7%10–24 mi

26%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Oyster Creek is a job hub

4.49jobs per working resident

A job hub

4.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Oyster Creek are

2,022 jobs are based in Oyster Creek. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Oyster Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Oyster Creek

2,022 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)80%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)8%

$1,250 a month or less7%

$1,251–$3,333 a month10%

Over $3,333 a month83%

Jobs Oyster Creek residents hold

450 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+11%

Jobs based in Oyster Creek, 2013 → 2023: 1,814 → 2,022. 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.