At 2.1%, unemployment in Ingleside is lower than in 83% of U.S. towns
6% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. The two grades for Ingleside are B for jobs and income and C for walkability. About one in seven stay in Ingleside for work; outside it, Corpus Christi is the main destination (24%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Ingleside, in brief
Ingleside makes and builds things
72% of the jobs based in Ingleside are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Ingleside residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Ingleside and Corpus Christi trade workers both ways
Corpus Christi is the top workplace for Ingleside residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Ingleside come from (28% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The jobs in Ingleside pay better than its residents’ jobs
75% of the jobs based in Ingleside pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 56% of the jobs Ingleside residents hold. 87% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Ingleside. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Ingleside are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
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.
The figures behind Ingleside’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Ingleside is better than 63% of U.S. towns, #232 of 642 in Texas. Unemployment holds Ingleside’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($69,464, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Ingleside could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Factories, building and farms: 72% of the jobs in Ingleside
4,904 jobs are based in Ingleside.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ingleside, 2013 → 2023: 3,898 → 4,904. 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 Ingleside’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the trip to work from Ingleside ends
Where Ingleside clocks in
24% 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.
Time on the road from Ingleside: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ingleside workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,603 commuters (the 6% 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 daily commute in and out of Ingleside
On a workday 3,319 residents head out to work, 646 work right here, and 4,258 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.24 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How many miles Ingleside commutes
About 27% 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.
For most of Ingleside, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ingleside is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns, #434 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place Ingleside 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 4,881 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 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 42% 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). 5.9% of Ingleside households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Ingleside’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ingleside places 1,350th of 2,878 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000
| # | 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 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Alamo Heights TX | 7,632 | $183K | 2.5% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Lucas TX | 8,896 | $221K | 1.3% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,348 | Royalton NY | 7,425 | $92K | 4.1% | 6.1% | 11% | B |
| 1,349 | Marion AR | 13,378 | $78K | 8.6% | 4.7% | 15% | B |
| 1,350 | Ingleside TX | 10,085 | $69K | 10.0% | 2.1% | 16% | B |
| 1,351 | Hyrum UT | 11,132 | $89K | 8.6% | 3.3% | 11% | B |
| 1,352 | Fife WA | 11,061 | $91K | 11.2% | 5.2% | 9% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Ingleside, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Ingleside and its neighbors: 29% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ingleside workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingleside | – | B | C | 21 min | $69,464 |
| Corpus Christi | 24% | C+ | A− | 21 min | $67,394 |
| Ingleside on the Bay | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Aransas Pass | 5% | C+ | B− | 23 min | $63,021 |
Same-state neighbors only. Ingleside on the Bay: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Corpus Christi. Darker towns draw more of Ingleside’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 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 Ingleside: questions
What is the median household income in Ingleside?
$69,464 (±$11,284) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ingleside?
10.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ingleside?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ingleside work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corpus Christi (24%, 8 mi), Aransas Pass (5%, 7 mi), Portland (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ingleside walkable?
Ingleside is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ingleside without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ingleside, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ingleside
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.