Bevil Oaks has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
For jobs and income Bevil Oaks is better than 69% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (D). There are 40 jobs in Bevil Oaks, and 374 of its residents work somewhere. Home is the office for 4% of workers, next to 14% for Texas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Bevil Oaks: the gist
Bevil Oaks is a place people come home to
There are 40 jobs based in Bevil Oaks, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Bevil Oaks has about 710 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Bevil Oaks and Beaumont trade workers both ways
Beaumont is the top workplace for Bevil Oaks residents (34%) and also where the most people who work in Bevil Oaks come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 374 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Bevil Oaks
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Bevil Oaks’ grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (6.8%) is left out: Bevil Oaks’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Bevil Oaks could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Who commutes out of Bevil Oaks, and who commutes in
On a workday 370 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 36 people come in from elsewhere.
About 710 people are in Bevil Oaks on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer 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.
34% of working residents work in Beaumont
Where Bevil Oaks clocks in
34% of workers
10% 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.
How many miles Bevil Oaks commutes
About 33% 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.
Jobs in Bevil Oaks: what the 40 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bevil Oaks, 2013 → 2023: 217 → 40. 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 Bevil Oaks’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 32 minutes each way for Bevil Oaks’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bevil Oaks workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 479 commuters (the 4% 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.
Most of Bevil Oaks commutes by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 497 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Bevil Oaks households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bevil Oaks’ commuters take a bus or train.
510th of 3,133: where Bevil Oaks ranks among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Weston TX | 1,140 | $144K | 2.8% | 0.7% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Randolph AFB TX | 1,240 | $113K | 2.8% | 3.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 508 | Shandon CA | 1,169 | $107K | 1.6% | 10.4% | 1% | B+ |
| 509 | Loma CO | 1,350 | $141K | 5.9% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 510 | Bevil Oaks TX | 1,042 | $91K | 7.7% | 6.8% | 1% | B+ |
| 511 | Chesterfield MA | 1,154 | $104K | 6.4% | 2.9% | 1% | B+ |
| 512 | Woodmohr WI | 1,019 | $87K | 4.3% | 3.7% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Bevil Oaks, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
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 Bevil Oaks: questions
What is the median household income in Bevil Oaks?
$91,031 (±$27,025) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bevil Oaks?
7.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bevil Oaks?
32 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bevil Oaks work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Beaumont (34%, 9 mi), Houston (10%, 72 mi), Sour Lake (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bevil Oaks walkable?
Bevil Oaks is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bevil Oaks without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bevil Oaks, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bevil Oaks
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.