Work & commute · Quail Creek

Work & commute in Quail Creek, TX

Most working residents leave Quail Creek for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Victoria (41%), Houston (7%) and San Antonio (4%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

26 of 753 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

44 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 727 Quail Creek residents head out of town to work, 26 work right here, and 707 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Quail Creek.

727live here, work elsewhere

26live and work here

707work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Quail Creek goes to work

Victoria6.9 mi away

41%312

Houston123.7 mi away

7%50

San Antonio99 mi away

4%28

Quail Creek (in town)right here

3%26

Austin112.5 mi away

3%24

Point Comfort32.9 mi away

3%23

Corpus Christi70.9 mi away

2%15

Dallas278.1 mi away

1%9

Port Lavaca29.8 mi away

1%8

Cuero25.6 mi away

1%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%252

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

How far

How far Quail Creek commutes

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

48%

11%

37%

48%Under 10 mi

4%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

37%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Quail Creek is balanced between jobs and homes

0.97jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.97 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Quail Creek are

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

Jobs based in Quail Creek

733 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities59%

Services (health, schools, offices…)16%

$1,250 a month or less4%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month80%

Jobs Quail Creek residents hold

753 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month58%

−34%

Jobs based in Quail Creek, 2013 → 2023: 1,105 → 733. 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.