Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0A job hub: La Vernia has 2.7 jobs per working resident, and 1,489 people come in to work
4% of workers have no commute at all (Texas 14%). La Vernia has 1,545 jobs for 566 working residents. The two grades for La Vernia are B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
La Vernia at work: what stands out
La Vernia is where the jobs are
La Vernia has 1,545 jobs, 2.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,500 people are in town, 65% more than the 1,500 who live here. Day and night ↓
36% of La Vernia works in San Antonio
204 working residents, 36%, have their main job in San Antonio, 25 miles away. That’s 4 times as many as work in La Vernia itself. The commute map ↓
The biggest group of La Vernia’s workers comes from San Antonio
150 of the people who work in La Vernia live in San Antonio, 25 miles away, more than from any other town. The commute map ↓
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 566 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How La Vernia earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, La Vernia is better than 66% of U.S. towns. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 72% of U.S. towns); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($76,250, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
Unemployment (4.0%) is left out: La Vernia’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, La Vernia could be anywhere from C to A.
Who leaves La Vernia for work, and who comes in
On a workday 510 residents head out to work and 56 work right here.
About 2,500 people are in La Vernia on a workday afternoon, 65% more 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.
The daily trip into La Vernia
Where La Vernia clocks in
36% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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 Vernia
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in La Vernia, 2014 → 2024: 1,081 → 1,545. 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 Vernia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from La Vernia takes about 36 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of La Vernia workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 518 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.
The distance from La Vernia to work
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of La Vernia, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, La Vernia is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 540 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). 8.6% of La Vernia households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of La Vernia’s commuters take a bus or train.
La Vernia places 1,309th of 6,308 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| 34 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,307 | Rossmoyne OH | 1,504 | $44K | 4.1% | 1.4% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,308 | Three Forks MT | 1,920 | $80K | 6.2% | 0.0% | 11% | B+ |
| 1,309 | La Vernia TX | 1,499 | $76K | 8.3% | 4.0% | 10% | B+ |
| 1,310 | North Bloomfield Township OH | 1,876 | $90K | 8.8% | 2.3% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,311 | Liberty Township PA | 1,413 | $93K | 4.3% | 1.3% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Vernia, 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 Vernia: questions
What is the median household income in La Vernia?
$76,250 (±$29,014) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in La Vernia?
8.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from La Vernia?
36 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 Vernia work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Antonio (36%, 25 mi), Austin (6%, 69 mi), Houston (4%, 167 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is La Vernia walkable?
La Vernia is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around La Vernia without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from La Vernia, from the people who make the trip.
More of La Vernia
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.