Household incomes in Cameron Park are lower than in 98% of U.S. towns
Hardly any stay in Cameron Park for work; outside it, Brownsville is the main destination (47%, 1 miles). The poverty rate is 44.6%; Texas has 13.8%. Jobs and income earn Cameron Park C−; getting around on foot earns it B−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Cameron Park
Cameron Park and Brownsville trade workers both ways
Brownsville is the top workplace for Cameron Park residents (47%) and also where the most people who work in Cameron Park come from (50% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Cameron Park is a place people come home to
There are 139 jobs based in Cameron Park, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Cameron Park has about 4,100 people in it, 31% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer than half of Cameron Park workers earn over $40,000 a year
33% of Cameron Park’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 24% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
A young workforce
30% of Cameron Park’s working residents are 29 or younger. 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.
Income, poverty and work: Cameron Park’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cameron Park is better than 18% of U.S. towns, #530 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds Cameron Park’s grade up (ahead of 66% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cameron Park could be anywhere from D to C+.
Where people from Cameron Park work
Where Cameron Park clocks in
47% of workers
5% 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.
Cameron Park by day and by night
On a workday 1,972 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 130 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,100 people are in Cameron Park on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer than live here.
0.07 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
In Cameron Park, services account for most jobs
139 jobs are based in Cameron Park.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cameron Park, 2013 → 2023: 25 → 139. 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 Cameron Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Cameron Park: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cameron Park workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,579 commuters (the 14% 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.
How far Cameron Park goes to work
About 24% 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.
For most of Cameron Park, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cameron Park is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns, #330 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place Cameron Park near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,835 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). 10.0% of Cameron Park households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cameron Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cameron Park next to U.S. towns of 4,200 to 8,000: 2,835th of 3,336 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 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Garden Ridge TX | 4,371 | $177K | 0.4% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,833 | Davison MI | 5,039 | $49K | 16.1% | 10.3% | 7% | C− |
| 2,834 | Caldwell TX | 4,970 | $61K | 21.2% | 5.8% | 17% | C− |
| 2,835 | Cameron Park TX | 5,955 | $36K | 44.6% | 4.9% | <1% | C− |
| 2,836 | Dewey-Humboldt AZ | 4,604 | $67K | 7.9% | 9.9% | 3% | C− |
| 2,837 | Lyons GA | 4,260 | $42K | 33.5% | 2.8% | 17% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,336 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 4% | 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 Cameron Park, 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 Cameron Park: questions
What is the median household income in Cameron Park?
$36,089 (±$2,500) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cameron Park?
44.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cameron Park?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cameron Park work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Brownsville (47%, 1 mi), Harlingen (5%, 20 mi), McAllen (4%, 51 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cameron Park walkable?
Cameron Park is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cameron Park 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 Cameron Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cameron Park
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.