Photo: Nsaum75 · CC BY-SA 3.0Hitchcock has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
1,483 jobs are based in Hitchcock for 3,415 working residents. Hitchcock grades B− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. At home: 4% of workers have no commute at all (Texas 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Hitchcock: the figures worth knowing
Hitchcock’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Hitchcock is Houston, 42 miles away as the crow flies. 22% of working residents (763) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Hitchcock makes and builds things
41% of the jobs based in Hitchcock are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Hitchcock residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
Few Hitchcock workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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.
Where Hitchcock’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hitchcock is better than 48% of U.S. towns, #307 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds Hitchcock’s grade up (ahead of 84% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (14.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hitchcock could be anywhere from C to A−.
Near or far: the trip to work from Hitchcock
About 15% 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.
Making and building: 41% of jobs based in Hitchcock
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hitchcock, 2014 → 2024: 1,122 → 1,483. 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 Hitchcock’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Hitchcock: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hitchcock workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,021 commuters (the 4% 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 a workday changes Hitchcock
On a workday 3,285 residents head out to work, 130 work right here, and 1,353 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,800 people are in Hitchcock on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
22% of working residents work in Houston
Where Hitchcock clocks in
22% of workers
18% 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.
In Hitchcock, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hitchcock is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns, #541 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place Hitchcock 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 3,144 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). 2.2% of Hitchcock households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hitchcock’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,822nd of 3,051: where Hitchcock ranks among U.S. towns of 5,400 to 10,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Alamo Heights TX | 7,632 | $183K | 2.5% | 2.2% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Oak Point TX | 6,909 | $126K | 1.5% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,820 | Crane Township OH | 7,489 | $67K | 10.7% | 3.0% | 36% | B− |
| 1,821 | Rome Township OH | 8,393 | $73K | 12.2% | 1.0% | 7% | B− |
| 1,822 | Hitchcock TX | 7,722 | $74K | 14.4% | 5.5% | 4% | B− |
| 1,823 | Columbia City IN | 10,256 | $68K | 13.6% | 3.7% | 15% | B− |
| 1,824 | St. Johns MI | 7,780 | $69K | 12.5% | 4.1% | 21% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,051 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Hitchcock, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Work in the towns next to Hitchcock
The biggest share goes to La Marque (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hitchcock workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hitchcock | – | B− | C− | 29 min | $74,157 |
| La Marque | 2% | C+ | C+ | 28 min | $71,102 |
| Bayou Vista | under 2% | A | B+ | 34 min | $120,455 |
| Alvin | under 2% | B | C | 29 min | $71,477 |
| Santa Fe | 2% | B | C | 28 min | $99,190 |
| Tiki Island | under 2% | A+ | C− | 33 min | $129,063 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hitchcock’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 Hitchcock: questions
What is the median household income in Hitchcock?
$74,157 (±$13,234) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hitchcock?
14.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hitchcock?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hitchcock work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (22%, 42 mi), Galveston (18%, 7 mi), Texas City (8%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hitchcock walkable?
Hitchcock is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hitchcock without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hitchcock, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hitchcock
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.