For more than half of its working residents, Hornsby Bend is a commute to Austin
Hornsby Bend grades B for jobs and income and D for walkability. 23% of workers have no commute at all (Texas 14%). Hardly any work in Hornsby Bend; the top destination outside it is Austin (58%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Hornsby Bend stands out on work
More than half of Hornsby Bend works in Austin
3,726 working residents, 58%, have their main job in Austin, 11 miles away. That’s 58 times as many as work in Hornsby Bend itself. The commute map ↓
Hornsby Bend is a place people come home to
There are 704 jobs based in Hornsby Bend, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Hornsby Bend has about 6,700 people in it, 46% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Hornsby Bend
70% of Hornsby Bend residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 46% of the jobs based in Hornsby Bend pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 99% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Hornsby Bend workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
A lot of Hornsby Bend works from home
23% of Hornsby Bend workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. 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.
The figures behind Hornsby Bend’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Hornsby Bend’s grade up (ahead of 85% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.0%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hornsby Bend could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Where the trip to work from Hornsby Bend ends
Where Hornsby Bend clocks in
58% of workers
3% of workers
3% 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.
A workday in Hornsby Bend: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 6,353 residents head out to work, 53 work right here, and 651 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,700 people are in Hornsby Bend on a workday afternoon, 46% fewer than live here.
0.11 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 2024, primary jobs.
What Hornsby Bend’s employers do
704 jobs are based in Hornsby Bend.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hornsby Bend, 2014 → 2024: 87 → 704. 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 Hornsby Bend’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Hornsby Bend: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hornsby Bend workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,226 commuters (the 23% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Hornsby Bend
About 21% 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.
In Hornsby Bend, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hornsby Bend is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns, #581 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place Hornsby Bend 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 6,821 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.9% of Hornsby Bend households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Hornsby Bend’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,273rd of 2,354: where Hornsby Bend ranks among U.S. towns of 9,000 to 17,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 10% | A+ |
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| 8 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
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| 34 | Lantana TX | 12,766 | $199K | 0.6% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Rendon TX | 14,632 | $118K | 3.7% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
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| 1,271 | Sun Lakes AZ | 13,924 | $68K | 9.4% | 4.5% | 4% | B |
| 1,272 | Summerfield MD | 15,065 | $91K | 12.9% | 6.7% | 1% | B |
| 1,273 | Hornsby Bend TX | 12,367 | $90K | 15.0% | 4.9% | 1% | B |
| 1,274 | South River NJ | 16,262 | $96K | 12.5% | 7.7% | 5% | B |
| 1,275 | Easthampton MA | 15,851 | $72K | 8.0% | 4.7% | 16% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,354 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 28% | 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 Hornsby Bend, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
The towns around Hornsby Bend
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hornsby Bend workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hornsby Bend | – | B | D | 34 min | $89,614 |
| Garfield | under 1% | B+ | B | 30 min | $73,349 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hornsby Bend’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 Hornsby Bend: questions
What is the median household income in Hornsby Bend?
$89,614 (±$13,209) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hornsby Bend?
15.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hornsby Bend?
34 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hornsby Bend work?
1% work in town.
Is Hornsby Bend walkable?
Hornsby Bend is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hornsby Bend without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hornsby Bend, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hornsby Bend
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.