Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Bandera draws 1,278 commuters a day, with 3.9 jobs for every working resident
Bandera has 1,326 jobs, and 336 of its residents work somewhere. About one in seven work in Bandera; the top destination outside it is San Antonio (23%, 38 miles). Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, against 14% across Texas.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Bandera: the figures worth knowing
Bandera fills up on a workday
Bandera has 1,326 jobs, 4.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,900 people are in town, more than double the 890 who live here. Day and night ↓
Bandera’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Bandera is San Antonio, 38 miles away as the crow flies. 23% of working residents (76) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Bandera
59% of Bandera residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 39% of the jobs based in Bandera pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 86% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 336 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How many people are in Bandera by day
On a workday 288 residents head out to work and 48 work right here.
About 1,900 people are in Bandera on a workday afternoon, 111% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How far it is to work from Bandera
About 25% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Bandera is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bandera, 2013 → 2023: 1,105 → 1,326. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bandera’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip into Bandera
Where Bandera clocks in
23% of workers
5% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
About 21 minutes to work from Bandera
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bandera workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 324 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bandera: questions
What is the median household income in Bandera?
$45,625 (±$37,682) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bandera?
12.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bandera?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bandera work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Antonio (23%, 38 mi), Kerrville (5%, 22 mi), Boerne (5%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bandera without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bandera, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bandera
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.