Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0About half of Bee Cave’s working residents commute to Austin
Home is the office for 35% of workers, next to 14% for Texas as a whole. Bee Cave grades A for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Measured by household income, Bee Cave is ahead of 84% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Bee Cave, in brief
Home offices are common in Bee Cave
35% of Bee Cave workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Time on the road ↓
Bee Cave is where the jobs are
Bee Cave has 9,546 jobs, 2.6 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 14,000 people are in town, 70% more than the 8,500 who live here. Day and night ↓
Bee Cave has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Bee Cave went from 5,346 in 2013 to 9,546 in 2023, +79%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Bee Cave are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Bee Cave
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bee Cave is better than 94% of U.S. towns, #54 of 642 in Texas. The poverty rate is its strongest input (2.2%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.1%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bee Cave could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
The trip to work from Bee Cave: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bee Cave workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,910 commuters (the 35% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Bee Cave
On a workday 3,368 residents head out to work, 293 work right here, and 9,253 people come in from elsewhere.
About 14,000 people are in Bee Cave on a workday afternoon, 70% more than live here.
2.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What work there is in Bee Cave: 9,546 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bee Cave, 2013 → 2023: 5,346 → 9,546. 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 Bee Cave’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting in to Bee Cave: where workers come from
Where Bee Cave clocks in
45% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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.
How far Bee Cave goes to work
About 26% 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.
In Bee Cave, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bee Cave is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns, #151 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,507 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.1% of Bee Cave households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Bee Cave’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bee Cave is 287th of 2,981 U.S. towns of 5,900 to 11,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Alamo Heights TX | 7,632 | $183K | 2.5% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Oak Point TX | 6,909 | $126K | 1.5% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 285 | Stratham NH | 7,735 | $152K | 2.4% | 2.5% | 7% | A |
| 286 | Hobart WA | 6,552 | $161K | 3.5% | 1.9% | 1% | A |
| 287 | Bee Cave TX | 8,464 | $111K | 2.2% | 3.1% | 8% | A |
| 288 | North Bend WA | 8,758 | $175K | 4.1% | 2.3% | 7% | A |
| 289 | Groveland Township MI | 6,274 | $106K | 4.2% | 1.6% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,981 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Bee Cave, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Bordering towns draw 49% of Bee Cave’s workers
The biggest share goes to Austin (45%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Bee Cave’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Bee Cave: questions
What is the median household income in Bee Cave?
$111,172 (±$29,020) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bee Cave?
2.2%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bee Cave?
22 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 35% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bee Cave work?
8% work in town.
Is Bee Cave walkable?
Bee Cave is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bee Cave without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bee Cave, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bee Cave
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.