Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Calvert has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Employers in Calvert report 114 jobs; 420 of its residents have a job. Only 4% work in Calvert; the top destination outside it is Houston (13%, 112 miles). 5% of workers have no commute at all, where Texas as a whole has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Calvert, in brief
A big share show a job far from home
59% 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 ↓
Calvert’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Calvert is Houston, 112 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (55) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Calvert is a place people come home to
There are 114 jobs based in Calvert, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Calvert has about 680 people in it, 31% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 420 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How many miles Calvert commutes
About 59% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Calvert
On a workday 402 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 96 people come in from elsewhere.
About 680 people are in Calvert on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
Where Calvert goes to work
Where Calvert clocks in
13% of workers
9% of workers
8% 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.
Calvert is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Calvert, 2013 → 2023: 259 → 114. 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 Calvert’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 33 minutes each way, longer than most of Texas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Calvert workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 237 commuters (the 5% 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 Calvert: questions
What is the median household income in Calvert?
$51,000 (±$31,242) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Calvert?
5.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Calvert?
33 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Calvert work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (13%, 112 mi), Bryan (9%, 28 mi), Austin (8%, 80 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Calvert without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Calvert, from the people who make the trip.
More of Calvert
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.