Hilltop Lakes has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Only 4% work in Hilltop Lakes; the top destination outside it is Bryan (12%, 30 miles). 132 jobs are based in Hilltop Lakes for 489 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, against 14% across Texas.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Hilltop Lakes, in a few figures
A big share show a job far from home
48% 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 ↓
Hilltop Lakes’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Hilltop Lakes is Bryan, 30 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (57) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Hilltop Lakes is a place people come home to
There are 132 jobs based in Hilltop Lakes, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Hilltop Lakes has about 440 people in it, 45% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 489 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The commute from Hilltop Lakes, by distance
About 48% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Hilltop Lakes
On a workday 469 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 112 people come in from elsewhere.
About 440 people are in Hilltop Lakes on a workday afternoon, 45% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Hilltop Lakes ends
Where Hilltop Lakes clocks in
12% of workers
11% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Hilltop Lakes
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hilltop Lakes, 2014 → 2024: 71 → 132. 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 Hilltop Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 35 minutes to work from Hilltop Lakes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hilltop Lakes workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 273 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.
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 Hilltop Lakes: questions
What is the poverty rate in Hilltop Lakes?
27.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hilltop Lakes?
35 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hilltop Lakes work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bryan (12%, 30 mi), Houston (11%, 100 mi), College Station (5%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Hilltop Lakes 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 Hilltop Lakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hilltop Lakes
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.