La Escondida has 0.0 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Hardly any work in La Escondida itself; outside it, Rio Grande City draws the most (36%, 3 miles). Employers in La Escondida report 1 jobs, against 55 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 14% for Texas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes La Escondida
On a workday 55 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in La Escondida on a workday afternoon, 32% 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 the trip to work from La Escondida ends
Where La Escondida clocks in
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.
La Escondida is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 La Escondida’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in La Escondida
of La Escondida workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 59 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.
The commute from La Escondida, by distance
About 36% 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 La Escondida: questions
What is the poverty rate in La Escondida?
64.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in La Escondida work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rio Grande City (36%, 3 mi), McAllen (7%, 40 mi), Donna (4%, 54 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around La Escondida 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 La Escondida, from the people who make the trip.
More of La Escondida
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.