Photo: Jim Evans · CC BY-SA 4.0La Marque has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
For 6% of workers, the job is at home, where Texas as a whole has 14%. La Marque has 3,417 jobs, against 8,109 working residents. The two grades for La Marque are C+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where La Marque’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, La Marque is better than 42% of U.S. towns, #335 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds La Marque’s grade up (ahead of 84% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.2%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, La Marque could be anywhere from C to B+.
In and out of La Marque on a workday
On a workday 7,791 residents head out to work, 318 work right here, and 3,099 people come in from elsewhere.
About 16,000 people are in La Marque on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
21% of working residents work in Galveston
Where La Marque clocks in
21% of workers
20% 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.
The kinds of work in La Marque
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in La Marque, 2013 → 2023: 3,498 → 3,417. 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 La Marque’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from La Marque: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of La Marque workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8,532 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.
How far La Marque goes to work
About 15% 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.
La Marque is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, La Marque is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns, #383 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 9,122 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). 5.9% of La Marque households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of La Marque’s commuters take a bus or train.
How La Marque ranks: 1,326th of 1,860 U.S. towns of 14,000 to 27,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ada Township MI | 14,769 | $168K | 2.0% | 0.7% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Colleyville TX | 25,727 | $218K | 2.5% | 3.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Corinth TX | 25,297 | $121K | 3.5% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Bellaire TX | 17,434 | $244K | 2.4% | 3.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,324 | Hastings NE | 25,121 | $64K | 14.8% | 2.9% | 54% | C+ |
| 1,325 | Asbury Park NJ | 15,632 | $76K | 21.9% | 5.6% | 11% | C+ |
| 1,326 | La Marque TX | 20,324 | $71K | 15.6% | 6.2% | 4% | C+ |
| 1,327 | Cherry Valley Township IL | 19,268 | $69K | 10.4% | 7.8% | 8% | C+ |
| 1,328 | Boulder City NV | 14,884 | $75K | 11.4% | 7.6% | 19% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,860 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Marque, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Bordering towns draw 10% of La Marque’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | La Marque workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Marque | – | C+ | C+ | 28 min | $71,102 |
| Hitchcock | under 2% | B− | C− | 29 min | $74,157 |
| Texas City | 10% | C+ | B | 26 min | $68,776 |
| Bayou Vista | under 2% | A | B+ | 34 min | $120,455 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Texas City. Darker towns draw more of La Marque’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 La Marque: questions
What is the median household income in La Marque?
$71,102 (±$9,675) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in La Marque?
15.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from La Marque?
28 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in La Marque work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Galveston (21%, 13 mi), Houston (20%, 37 mi), Texas City (10%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is La Marque walkable?
La Marque is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around La Marque without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from La Marque, from the people who make the trip.
More of La Marque
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.