La Blanca has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
The two grades for La Blanca are C for jobs and income and D for walkability. Employers in La Blanca report 65 jobs, and 631 of its residents work somewhere. 4% of workers work from home (Texas 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: La Blanca in brief
La Blanca is a place people come home to
There are 65 jobs based in La Blanca, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Fewer than half of La Blanca workers earn over $40,000 a year
42% of La Blanca’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 18% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Few La Blanca workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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; with 631 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for La Blanca
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, La Blanca is better than 28% of U.S. towns, #438 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds La Blanca’s grade up (ahead of 72% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (19.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, La Blanca could be anywhere from D to A−.
How many people are in La Blanca by day
On a workday 628 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 62 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,400 people are in La Blanca on a workday afternoon, 19% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Factories, building and farms: 68% of the jobs in La Blanca
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in La Blanca, 2014 → 2024: 45 → 65. 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 La Blanca’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from La Blanca: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of La Blanca workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 912 commuters (the 4% 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.
18% of working residents work in Edinburg
Where La Blanca clocks in
18% of workers
15% of workers
7% 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.
How many miles La Blanca commutes
About 20% 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.
Getting around La Blanca: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, La Blanca is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns, #608 of 642 in Texas. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 3.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 947 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). 4.5% of La Blanca households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of La Blanca’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,272nd of 4,618: where La Blanca ranks among 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,270 | Corunna MI | 3,000 | $46K | 14.9% | 4.3% | 6% | C |
| 3,271 | Knob Noster MO | 2,997 | $62K | 6.0% | 10.0% | 9% | C |
| 3,272 | La Blanca TX | 2,998 | $56K | 19.2% | 5.5% | <1% | C |
| 3,273 | Alexander AR | 3,801 | $57K | 27.5% | 5.2% | 1% | C |
| 3,274 | Mount Shasta CA | 3,071 | $48K | 17.5% | 0.0% | 34% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 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 La Blanca, 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 La Blanca: questions
What is the median household income in La Blanca?
$56,008 (±$19,334) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in La Blanca?
19.2%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from La Blanca?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in La Blanca work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Edinburg (18%, 8 mi), McAllen (15%, 15 mi), Weslaco (7%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is La Blanca walkable?
La Blanca is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around La Blanca without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from La Blanca, from the people who make the trip.
More of La Blanca
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.