Work & commute · Penitas

Work & commute in Penitas, TX

Most working residents leave Penitas for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are McAllen (16%), La Joya (13%) and Mission (10%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

33 of 1,779 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,746 Penitas residents head out of town to work, 33 work right here, and 756 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Penitas.

1,746live here, work elsewhere

33live and work here

756work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Penitas goes to work

McAllen12.2 mi away

16%280

La Joya2.3 mi away

13%226

Mission8 mi away

10%178

Edinburg18.1 mi away

9%166

Pharr16.6 mi away

5%82

Palmview4 mi away

3%54

Houston306.4 mi away

3%45

Brownsville62.3 mi away

2%44

Harlingen46.2 mi away

2%39

Corpus Christi129.3 mi away

2%35

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%630

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

How far

How far Penitas commutes

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

31%

37%

26%

31%Under 10 mi

37%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Penitas is a commuter town

0.44jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Penitas are

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

Jobs based in Penitas

789 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities34%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less28%

$1,251–$3,333 a month51%

Over $3,333 a month22%

Jobs Penitas residents hold

1,779 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month38%

+156%

Jobs based in Penitas, 2013 → 2023: 308 → 789. 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.