Almost no one in Deerwood’s labor force is looking for work
Hardly any stay in Deerwood for work; outside it, Houston is the main destination (24%, 37 miles). Deerwood grades B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. 0% of workers work from home (Texas 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Deerwood at work: what stands out
Deerwood is a place people come home to
There are 7 jobs based in Deerwood, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Deerwood has about 1,800 people in it, 26% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Deerwood’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Deerwood is Houston, 37 miles away as the crow flies. 24% of working residents (148) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Deerwood workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 43 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 330 hours of commuting, 123 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 618 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Deerwood’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Deerwood is better than 68% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Deerwood’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($61,436, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Deerwood could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Deerwood quiets down on a workday
On a workday 618 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Deerwood on a workday afternoon, 26% fewer than live here.
0.01 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.
How far Deerwood’s workers travel
About 26% 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.
A commute of about 43 minutes in Deerwood
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Deerwood workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,271 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.
Where Deerwood’s working residents head each day
Where Deerwood clocks in
24% of workers
20% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Deerwood
7 jobs are based in Deerwood.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Deerwood, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 7. 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 Deerwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most of Deerwood commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Deerwood is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,271 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 Deerwood households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Deerwood’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Deerwood is 1,308th among 4,995 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Southside Place TX | 1,916 | $163K | 5.0% | 5.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Bartonville TX | 1,937 | $149K | 4.3% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,306 | Harmony Township NJ | 2,542 | $92K | 3.9% | 5.8% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,307 | Thompson Township OH | 2,159 | $91K | 4.9% | 3.4% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,308 | Deerwood TX | 2,366 | $61K | 8.7% | 0.0% | 0% | B+ |
| 1,309 | Emmitsburg MD | 2,910 | $81K | 11.6% | 0.9% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,310 | Cape Carteret NC | 2,273 | $86K | 6.1% | 1.3% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Deerwood, 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 Deerwood: questions
What is the median household income in Deerwood?
$61,436 (±$31,898) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Deerwood?
8.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Deerwood?
43 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Deerwood work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (24%, 37 mi), Conroe (20%, 11 mi), The Woodlands (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Deerwood walkable?
Deerwood is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Deerwood without a car?
2% 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 Deerwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Deerwood
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.