Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Hutto commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Hutto A; getting around on foot earns it C−. There are 3,755 jobs in Hutto; 16,816 of its residents have a job. Measured by household income, Hutto is ahead of 88% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Hutto stands out on work
Jobs in Hutto have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Hutto went from 1,449 in 2013 to 3,755 in 2023, +159%. The jobs ↓
41% of Hutto works in Austin
6,865 working residents, 41%, have their main job in Austin, 21 miles away. That’s 14 times as many as work in Hutto itself. The commute map ↓
Hutto is a place people come home to
There are 3,755 jobs based in Hutto, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Hutto has about 33,000 people in it, 28% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Hutto
71% of Hutto residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 51% of the jobs based in Hutto pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 97% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Hutto
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hutto is better than 90% of U.S. towns, #84 of 642 in Texas. Household income is its strongest input ($118,834, U.S. $80,734); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hutto could be anywhere from A− to A+.
Hutto makes things: 29% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hutto, 2013 → 2023: 1,449 → 3,755. 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 Hutto’s own residents hold wherever they work.
41% of working residents work in Austin
Where Hutto clocks in
41% of workers
13% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Hutto
On a workday 16,368 residents head out to work, 448 work right here, and 3,307 people come in from elsewhere.
About 33,000 people are in Hutto on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Getting to work from Hutto takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hutto workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 16,350 commuters (the 18% 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.
The commute from Hutto, by distance
About 18% 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.
Getting around Hutto: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hutto is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns, #500 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place Hutto 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 19,869 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). 1.4% of Hutto households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hutto’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Hutto is 159th among 969 U.S. towns of 32,000 to 62,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| 3 | Upper Arlington OH | 35,893 | $155K | 3.3% | 2.0% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Keller TX | 46,078 | $175K | 3.4% | 2.7% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Coppell TX | 41,386 | $146K | 5.4% | 2.6% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 60 | Princeton TX | 43,524 | $105K | 4.1% | 2.5% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 157 | Harrison NY | 32,273 | $164K | 4.1% | 5.5% | 10% | A |
| 158 | Andover MA | 37,014 | $173K | 2.9% | 5.6% | 16% | A |
| 159 | Hutto TX | 46,048 | $119K | 5.7% | 3.4% | 3% | A |
| 160 | Freehold Township NJ | 36,052 | $129K | 5.6% | 3.7% | 10% | A |
| 161 | Braintree Town MA | 38,957 | $122K | 5.9% | 4.0% | 12% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 969 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Hutto, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
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 Hutto: questions
What is the median household income in Hutto?
$118,834 (±$9,985) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hutto?
5.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hutto?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hutto work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Austin (41%, 21 mi), Round Rock (13%, 7 mi), Pflugerville (4%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hutto walkable?
Hutto is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hutto without a car?
0% 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 Hutto, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hutto
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. 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.