With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Catarina works elsewhere
Catarina has 5 jobs for 26 working residents. Hardly any stay in Catarina for work; outside it, Carrizo Springs is the main destination (15%, 19 miles). 0% of workers work from home, where Texas as a whole has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Catarina, and who commutes in
On a workday 26 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 5 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Catarina on a workday afternoon, 14% 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.
The places Catarina commutes to
Where Catarina clocks in
15% of workers
12% 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.
What Catarina’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Catarina’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Catarina: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Catarina workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 82 commuters (the 0% 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.
Miles to work from Catarina
About 65% 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.
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 Catarina: questions
What is the poverty rate in Catarina?
0.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Catarina?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Catarina work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Carrizo Springs (15%, 19 mi), San Antonio (12%, 101 mi), Del Rio (8%, 104 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Catarina 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 Catarina, from the people who make the trip.
More of Catarina
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.