Work & commute · Santa Rosa

Work & commute in Santa Rosa, TX

Most working residents leave Santa Rosa for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Harlingen (22%), Brownsville (8%) and McAllen (4%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

21 of 650 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 629 Santa Rosa residents head out of town to work, 21 work right here, and 317 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Santa Rosa.

629live here, work elsewhere

21live and work here

317work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Santa Rosa goes to work

Harlingen9.1 mi away

22%146

Brownsville28.2 mi away

8%55

McAllen26.2 mi away

4%27

Weslaco12 mi away

4%25

Edinburg20.8 mi away

4%25

Santa Rosa (in town)right here

3%21

San Benito14.2 mi away

3%21

Houston285.6 mi away

3%17

San Antonio225.6 mi away

2%16

La Feria7 mi away

2%15

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%282

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

How far

How far Santa Rosa commutes

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

27%

32%

15%

26%

27%Under 10 mi

32%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Santa Rosa is a commuter town

0.52jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Santa Rosa are

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

Jobs based in Santa Rosa

338 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities7%

Services (health, schools, offices…)89%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Santa Rosa residents hold

650 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month47%

−13%

Jobs based in Santa Rosa, 2013 → 2023: 389 → 338. 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.