Work & commute · Palacios

Work & commute in Palacios, TX

Most working residents leave Palacios for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Houston (15%), Bay City (5%) and Point Comfort (4%). Half commute less than 56 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11%

186 of 1,712 working residents

Typical commute

56 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 1,526 Palacios residents head out of town to work, 186 work right here, and 281 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Palacios.

1,526live here, work elsewhere

186live and work here

281work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Palacios goes to work

Houston89.7 mi away

15%253

Palacios (in town)right here

11%186

Bay City24.7 mi away

5%90

Point Comfort20.2 mi away

4%63

El Campo33.8 mi away

3%55

Austin142.9 mi away

3%51

Victoria46.6 mi away

3%44

Port Lavaca25.1 mi away

2%41

Matagorda15.9 mi away

2%29

San Antonio148 mi away

1%23

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%877

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

How far

How far Palacios commutes

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

16%

15%

52%

16%Under 10 mi

16%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

52%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Palacios is a commuter town

0.27jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Palacios are

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

Jobs based in Palacios

467 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month34%

Jobs Palacios residents hold

1,712 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)32%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month56%

−36%

Jobs based in Palacios, 2013 → 2023: 735 → 467. 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.