With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of El Chaparral works elsewhere
A typical one-way commute from El Chaparral lasts 42 minutes (Texas 27, U.S. 26). Employers in El Chaparral report 15 jobs, and 157 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in El Chaparral for work; outside it, Rio Grande City is the main destination (23%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes El Chaparral
On a workday 157 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 15 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in El Chaparral on a workday afternoon, 50% 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 El Chaparral commutes to
Where El Chaparral clocks in
12% of workers
6% 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 El Chaparral’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in El Chaparral, 2013 → 2023: 51 → 15. 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 El Chaparral’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long El Chaparral spends getting to work: about 42 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of El Chaparral workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 124 commuters (the 11% 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 many miles El Chaparral commutes
About 36% 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.
Next door to El Chaparral
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | El Chaparral workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Chaparral | – | — | — | 42 min | $35,078 |
| Santa Rosa | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Santa Rosa: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of El Chaparral’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 El Chaparral: questions
What is the median household income in El Chaparral?
$35,078 (±$23,506) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in El Chaparral?
53.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from El Chaparral?
42 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in El Chaparral work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rio Grande City (23%, 4 mi), McAllen (12%, 33 mi), Harlingen (6%, 67 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around El Chaparral 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 El Chaparral, from the people who make the trip.
More of El Chaparral
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.