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Work & commute · The Hills

Work & commute in The Hills, TX

Most working residents leave The Hills for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Austin (42%), Bee Cave (7%) and Houston (5%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
1%
13 of 919 working residents
Typical commute
16 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
24 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
41%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 906 The Hills residents head out of town to work, 13 work right here, and 288 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in The Hills.

906live here, work elsewhere
13live and work here
288work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where The Hills goes to work

The HillsWest Lake HillsDripping SpringsBee CaveLakewayCedar ParkSan MarcosRound RockPlanoAustinDallasSan AntonioHoustonHudson BendAustinBee CaveHoustonLakewaySan AntonioDallasRound RockPlanoWest Lake HillsThe Hills
1
Austin14.2 mi away
42%389
2
Bee Cave3 mi away
7%60
3
Houston160.1 mi away
5%47
4
Lakeway0.6 mi away
5%46
5
San Antonio69 mi away
5%45
6
Dallas183.7 mi away
2%22
7
The Hills (in town)right here
1%13
8
Round Rock22.9 mi away
1%13
9
Plano200.5 mi away
1%12
10
West Lake Hills11 mi away
1%9
Everywhere elseother towns and states
29%263

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

How far

How far The Hills commutes

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

20%Under 10 mi
46%10–24 mi
4%25–50 mi
30%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

The Hills is a commuter town

0.33jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in The Hills are

301 jobs are based in The Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs The Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in The Hills

301 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)2%
Trade, transport & utilities5%
Services (health, schools, offices…)93%
$1,250 a month or less24%
$1,251–$3,333 a month22%
Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs The Hills residents hold

919 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)12%
Trade, transport & utilities20%
Services (health, schools, offices…)69%
$1,250 a month or less14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month15%
Over $3,333 a month71%
+14%

Jobs based in The Hills, 2013 → 2023: 264 → 301. 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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