K-Bar Ranch has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Hardly any stay in K-Bar Ranch for work; outside it, Corpus Christi is the main destination (31%, 49 miles). K-Bar Ranch has 6 jobs, and 133 of its residents work somewhere. For 0% of workers, the job is at home, against 14% across Texas.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in K-Bar Ranch by day
On a workday 133 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 230 people are in K-Bar Ranch on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Where people from K-Bar Ranch work
Where K-Bar Ranch clocks in
31% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 100% of the jobs in K-Bar Ranch
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in K-Bar Ranch, 2013 → 2023: 49 → 6. 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 K-Bar Ranch’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in K-Bar Ranch
of K-Bar Ranch workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 129 commuters (the 0% 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 K-Bar Ranch
About 33% 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.
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 K-Bar Ranch: questions
What is the median household income in K-Bar Ranch?
$42,390 (±$3,464) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in K-Bar Ranch?
8.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in K-Bar Ranch work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corpus Christi (31%, 49 mi), Alice (10%, 18 mi), Orange Grove (5%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around K-Bar Ranch without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from K-Bar Ranch, from the people who make the trip.
More of K-Bar Ranch
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.