Work & commute · Valley Mills

Work & commute in Valley Mills, TX

Most working residents leave Valley Mills for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Waco (25%), Clifton (4%) and Fort Worth (3%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

30 of 697 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 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 667 Valley Mills residents head out of town to work, 30 work right here, and 263 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Valley Mills.

667live here, work elsewhere

30live and work here

263work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Valley Mills goes to work

Waco18 mi away

25%176

Valley Mills (in town)right here

4%30

Clifton10.9 mi away

4%27

Fort Worth78 mi away

3%22

Abilene143.7 mi away

3%19

Dallas88.7 mi away

2%17

Hewitt21.7 mi away

2%14

Arlington74.9 mi away

2%14

Crawford8.4 mi away

2%13

Houston179 mi away

2%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%352

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

How far

How far Valley Mills commutes

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

10%

43%

10%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

43%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Valley Mills is a commuter town

0.42jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Valley Mills are

293 jobs are based in Valley Mills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Valley Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Valley Mills

293 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month56%

Jobs Valley Mills residents hold

697 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+82%

Jobs based in Valley Mills, 2013 → 2023: 161 → 293. 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.