Most of La Ward commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any stay in La Ward for work; outside it, Ganado is the main destination (12%, 14 miles). 9 jobs are based in La Ward, against 68 working residents. 0% of workers have no commute at all, 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 many people are in La Ward by day
On a workday 68 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 150 people are in La Ward on a workday afternoon, 28% 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 La Ward’s working residents head each day
Where La Ward clocks in
12% of workers
9% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in La Ward
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in La Ward, 2013 → 2023: 14 → 9. 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 Ward’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from La Ward takes about 76 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 24.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of La Ward workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 32 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.
Half of La Ward commutes less than 19 miles
About 35% 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 Ward: questions
What is the poverty rate in La Ward?
44.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from La Ward?
76 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in La Ward work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ganado (12%, 14 mi), Victoria (9%, 32 mi), Houston (7%, 92 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around La Ward without a car?
0% 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 Ward, from the people who make the trip.
More of La Ward
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.