Household incomes in Falcon Lake Estates are lower than in 65% of U.S. towns
For 6% of workers, the job is at home; Texas has 14%. Poverty touches 33.0% of residents, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. Jobs and income earn Falcon Lake Estates D; getting around on foot earns it D−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Falcon Lake Estates at work: what stands out
Falcon Lake Estates’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Falcon Lake Estates is Laredo, 50 miles away as the crow flies. 25% of working residents (84) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Falcon Lake Estates is the work center of its corner
Every town that borders Falcon Lake Estates (Zapata, Siesta Shores and Falcon Mesa) has fewer jobs than working residents, while Falcon Lake Estates has 1.6 per resident. Next door ↓
A big share show a job far from home
46% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 339 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Falcon Lake Estates’ Jobs & income grade comes from
Household income holds Falcon Lake Estates’ grade up ($65,909, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (3.3%) is left out: Falcon Lake Estates’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Falcon Lake Estates could be anywhere from D− to C+.
How far Falcon Lake Estates’ workers travel
About 46% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Falcon Lake Estates fills up on a workday
On a workday 312 residents head out to work, 27 work right here, and 528 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Falcon Lake Estates on a workday afternoon, 20% more than live here.
1.6 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 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that send workers to Falcon Lake Estates
Where Falcon Lake Estates clocks in
25% of workers
11% 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.
The 555 jobs based in Falcon Lake Estates
555 jobs are based in Falcon Lake Estates.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Falcon Lake Estates, 2014 → 2024: 852 → 555. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Falcon Lake Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 29 minutes from Falcon Lake Estates
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Falcon Lake Estates workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 390 commuters (the 6% 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.
For most of Falcon Lake Estates, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Falcon Lake Estates is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Falcon Lake Estates 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 416 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). 7.1% of Falcon Lake Estates households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Falcon Lake Estates’ commuters take a bus or train.
Falcon Lake Estates next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500: 3,350th of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,348 | Stafford Township KS | 1,072 | $44K | 14.2% | 3.1% | 19% | D |
| 3,349 | Morgan Township OH | 1,357 | $62K | 27.2% | 4.4% | <1% | D |
| 3,350 | Falcon Lake Estates TX | 1,075 | $66K | 33.0% | 3.3% | 8% | D |
| 3,351 | Oak Grove LA | 1,350 | $51K | 16.8% | 2.2% | 27% | D |
| 3,352 | Maysville MO | 1,071 | $44K | 18.4% | 2.2% | 14% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Falcon Lake Estates, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
The towns next door employ 11% of Falcon Lake Estates
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Falcon Lake Estates workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falcon Lake Estates | – | D | D− | 29 min | $65,909 |
| Zapata | 11% | D | B | 23 min | $45,488 |
| Siesta Shores | under 2% | D− | C+ | 28 min | $35,352 |
| Falcon Mesa | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Falcon Mesa: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Zapata. Darker towns draw more of Falcon Lake Estates’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 2024, 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 Falcon Lake Estates: questions
What is the median household income in Falcon Lake Estates?
$65,909 (±$46,717) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Falcon Lake Estates?
33.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Falcon Lake Estates?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Falcon Lake Estates work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Laredo (25%, 50 mi), Zapata (11%, 2 mi), McAllen (4%, 77 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Falcon Lake Estates walkable?
Falcon Lake Estates is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Falcon Lake Estates without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Falcon Lake Estates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Falcon Lake Estates
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.