Work & commute · San Carlos

Work & commute in San Carlos, TX

Most working residents leave San Carlos for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Edinburg (23%), McAllen (17%) and Pharr (8%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11 of 934 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

22%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 923 San Carlos residents head out of town to work, 11 work right here, and 165 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in San Carlos.

923live here, work elsewhere

11live and work here

165work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where San Carlos goes to work

Edinburg5.8 mi away

23%215

McAllen12.3 mi away

17%155

Pharr12.2 mi away

8%77

Weslaco10.4 mi away

5%44

Mission17.4 mi away

4%36

Houston291.1 mi away

3%30

Harlingen23.8 mi away

2%21

Brownsville41.9 mi away

2%19

San Juan9.2 mi away

2%18

Elsa4.3 mi away

1%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%305

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

How far

How far San Carlos commutes

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

44%

30%

22%

44%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

San Carlos is a commuter town

0.19jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in San Carlos are

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

Jobs based in San Carlos

176 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities59%

Services (health, schools, offices…)22%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month54%

Over $3,333 a month21%

Jobs San Carlos residents hold

934 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month41%

+20%

Jobs based in San Carlos, 2013 → 2023: 147 → 176. 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.