Household incomes in Indian Hills are among the lowest of any U.S. town
Measured by household income, Indian Hills is among the lowest-earning towns in the country. 66.8% of residents live below the poverty line; Texas has 13.8%. Jobs and income earn Indian Hills D; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Indian Hills
Indian Hills is a place people come home to
There are 21 jobs based in Indian Hills, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Indian Hills has about 2,100 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Indian Hills and Weslaco trade workers both ways
Weslaco is the top workplace for Indian Hills residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Indian Hills come from (29% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer than half of Indian Hills workers earn over $40,000 a year
33% of Indian Hills’ working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 20% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
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 873 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Indian Hills’ Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Indian Hills is better than 14% of U.S. towns, #565 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds Indian Hills’ grade up (ahead of 68% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Indian Hills’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, Indian Hills could be anywhere from D to C−.
Indian Hills by day and by night
On a workday 872 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 20 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Indian Hills on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.
0.02 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.
17% of working residents work in Weslaco
Where Indian Hills clocks in
17% of workers
11% of workers
10% 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.
Goods, not services: 52% of the jobs in Indian Hills
21 jobs are based in Indian Hills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Indian Hills, 2014 → 2024: 5 → 21. 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 Indian Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Indian Hills: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Indian Hills workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 580 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.
How far it is to work from Indian Hills
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.
Driving is how Indian Hills gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Indian Hills is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns, #407 of 642 in Texas. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 3.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 709 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). 3.1% of Indian Hills households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Indian Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Indian Hills ranks: 3,946th of 4,618 U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Talty TX | 3,299 | $155K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,944 | Nekoosa WI | 2,402 | $46K | 16.6% | 5.2% | 11% | D |
| 3,945 | Triangle NY | 2,727 | $72K | 19.0% | 13.8% | 16% | D |
| 3,946 | Indian Hills TX | 2,961 | $33K | 66.8% | 3.4% | <1% | D |
| 3,947 | Gooding ID | 3,855 | $42K | 27.5% | 3.3% | 25% | D |
| 3,948 | Manistique MI | 2,868 | $38K | 18.4% | 3.3% | 42% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,618 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 0% | 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 Indian Hills, 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 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 Indian Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Indian Hills?
$32,816 (±$12,822) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Indian Hills?
66.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Indian Hills?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Indian Hills work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Weslaco (17%, 6 mi), McAllen (11%, 20 mi), Mercedes (10%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Indian Hills walkable?
Indian Hills is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Indian Hills without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Indian Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Indian Hills
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.