Work & commute · Texas

Work & commute in Texas, WI

Most working residents leave Texas for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Wausau (42%), Weston (7%) and Merrill (6%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2 of 783 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 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 781 Texas residents head out of town to work, 2 work right here, and 246 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Texas.

781live here, work elsewhere

2live and work here

246work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Texas goes to work

Wausau8.8 mi away

42%325

Weston12.5 mi away

7%51

Merrill10.2 mi away

6%45

Schofield11.4 mi away

5%37

Rothschild14.1 mi away

3%23

Marshfield41.3 mi away

2%19

Maine6.1 mi away

2%19

Stevens Point37.8 mi away

2%13

Marathon City17 mi away

1%11

Mosinee20.4 mi away

1%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

29%230

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

How far

How far Texas commutes

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

42%

32%

17%

42%Under 10 mi

32%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Texas is a commuter town

0.32jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Texas are

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

Jobs based in Texas

248 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)58%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)23%

$1,250 a month or less6%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month69%

Jobs Texas residents hold

783 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+31%

Jobs based in Texas, 2013 → 2023: 189 → 248. 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.