Work & commute · Southside Place

Work & commute in Southside Place, TX

Most working residents leave Southside Place for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Houston (68%), Sugar Land (2%) and Austin (1%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14 of 826 working residents

Typical commute

6 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

21%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 812 Southside Place residents head out of town to work, 14 work right here, and 983 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Southside Place.

812live here, work elsewhere

14live and work here

983work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Southside Place goes to work

Houston6 mi away

68%562

Sugar Land14.1 mi away

2%17

Southside Place (in town)right here

2%14

Austin144.6 mi away

1%12

Bellaire1.6 mi away

1%11

Pasadena17.5 mi away

1%11

Pearland12.5 mi away

1%9

West University Place0.5 mi away

1%8

Galveston45.8 mi away

1%8

Dallas227.2 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

20%166

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

How far

How far Southside Place commutes

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

64%

19%

10%

64%Under 10 mi

19%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

10%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Southside Place is balanced between jobs and homes

1.21jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.21 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Southside Place are

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

Jobs based in Southside Place

997 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Southside Place residents hold

826 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month74%

−49%

Jobs based in Southside Place, 2013 → 2023: 1,944 → 997. 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.