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Work & commute · Rio Hondo

Work & commute in Rio Hondo, TX

Most working residents leave Rio Hondo for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Harlingen (32%), Brownsville (8%) and San Benito (5%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
8%
55 of 665 working residents
Typical commute
12 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
22 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
9%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 610 Rio Hondo residents head out of town to work, 55 work right here, and 776 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Rio Hondo.

610live here, work elsewhere
55live and work here
776work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Rio Hondo goes to work

Rio HondoCombesRaymondvilleWeslacoSan BenitoPharrHarlingenCorpus ChristiSan AntonioHoustonEdinburgMcAllenBrownsvilleArroyo GardensLaurelesHarlingenBrownsvilleSan BenitoMcAllenHoustonWeslacoSan AntonioEdinburgCorpus ChristiRio Hondo
1
Harlingen7.8 mi away
32%211
2
Brownsville18.1 mi away
8%56
3
Rio Hondo (in town)right here
8%55
4
San Benito8.2 mi away
5%36
5
McAllen41.2 mi away
5%32
6
Houston279.4 mi away
2%15
7
Weslaco25.7 mi away
2%14
8
San Antonio230.4 mi away
2%13
9
Edinburg35.9 mi away
2%13
10
Corpus Christi108 mi away
2%12
Everywhere elseother towns and states
31%208

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

How far

How far Rio Hondo commutes

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

48%Under 10 mi
16%10–24 mi
14%25–50 mi
22%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Rio Hondo is balanced between jobs and homes

1.25jobs per working resident
Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.25 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Rio Hondo are

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

Jobs based in Rio Hondo

831 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)6%
Trade, transport & utilities11%
Services (health, schools, offices…)83%
$1,250 a month or less29%
$1,251–$3,333 a month36%
Over $3,333 a month35%

Jobs Rio Hondo residents hold

665 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)14%
Trade, transport & utilities18%
Services (health, schools, offices…)68%
$1,250 a month or less18%
$1,251–$3,333 a month40%
Over $3,333 a month42%
+17%

Jobs based in Rio Hondo, 2013 → 2023: 712 → 831. 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.

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