Photo: Tijuana Brass at English Wikipedia · Public domainDeer Park has 2.2 jobs for every working resident: 30,474 people commute in to work
Jobs & income B+: better than 71% of U.S. towns on income, poverty, unemployment and job access · #188 of 642 in Texas.
Walkability B: more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns · #236 of 642 in Texas.
Household incomes here are higher than in 77% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 24 minutes each way (Texas 27, U.S. 26). About one in seven work in Deer Park; the top destination outside it is Houston (31%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Deer Park, in brief
Deer Park is where the jobs are
Deer Park has 32,595 jobs, 2.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 52,000 people are in town, 51% more than the 34,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Deer Park makes and builds things
47% of the jobs based in Deer Park are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Deer Park residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
Deer Park and Houston trade workers both ways
Houston is the top workplace for Deer Park residents (31%) and also where the most people who work in Deer Park come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Deer Park has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Deer Park went from 22,179 in 2013 to 32,595 in 2023, +47%. The jobs ↓
The biggest group of Deer Park’s workers comes from Houston
4,830 of the people who work in Deer Park live in Houston, 18 miles away, more than from any other town. The commute map ↓
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.
What’s behind Deer Park’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Deer Park is better than 71% of U.S. towns, #188 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds Deer Park’s grade up (ahead of 96% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (5.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Deer Park could be anywhere from B to A.
Deer Park fills up on a workday
On a workday 12,933 residents head out to work, 2,121 work right here, and 30,474 people come in from elsewhere.
About 52,000 people are in Deer Park on a workday afternoon, 51% more than live here.
2.2 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.
Deer Park makes things: 47% of its jobs are in goods
32,595 jobs are based in Deer Park. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Deer Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Deer Park, 2013 → 2023: 22,179 → 32,595. 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.
Where Deer Park’s workers come from
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Deer Park clocks in
31% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 24 minutes each way, quicker than most of Texas
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Deer Park workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 14,584 commuters (the 9% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Half of Deer Park commutes less than 11 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Most trips from Deer Park start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Deer Park is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns, #236 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.2% 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 16,034 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 0.0 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). 3.6% of Deer Park households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Deer Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
Deer Park is 600th of 1,255 U.S. towns of 24,000 to 46,000 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Deer Park, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Colleyville TX | 25,727 | $218K | 2.5% | 3.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Corinth TX | 25,297 | $121K | 3.5% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 598 | Monrovia CA | 38,264 | $96K | 10.3% | 5.1% | 8% | B+ |
| 599 | Marion IA | 42,732 | $87K | 8.1% | 3.6% | 15% | B+ |
| 600 | Deer Park TX | 34,282 | $100K | 9.1% | 5.8% | 14% | B+ |
| 601 | Goleta CA | 32,401 | $122K | 9.3% | 4.2% | 24% | B+ |
| 602 | Madison Heights MI | 28,297 | $70K | 10.8% | 2.8% | 7% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,255 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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.
18% of Deer Park works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Pasadena (13%). Darker towns draw more of Deer Park’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
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 Deer Park: questions
What is the median household income in Deer Park?
$100,382 (±$10,503) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Deer Park?
9.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Deer Park?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Deer Park work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (31%, 18 mi), Pasadena (13%, 3 mi), La Porte (5%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Deer Park walkable?
Deer Park is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Deer Park without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Deer Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Deer 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.