Lake Meredith Estates has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
There are 3 jobs in Lake Meredith Estates; 124 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Lake Meredith Estates itself; outside it, Amarillo draws the most (19%, 34 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Texas has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Lake Meredith Estates
On a workday 124 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 62 people are in Lake Meredith Estates on a workday afternoon, 66% 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 Lake Meredith Estates goes to work
Where Lake Meredith Estates clocks in
19% of workers
17% 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.
In Lake Meredith Estates, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lake Meredith Estates, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 3. 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 Lake Meredith Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Lake Meredith Estates: about 21 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lake Meredith Estates workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 85 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Lake Meredith Estates
About 30% 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 Lake Meredith Estates: questions
What is the median household income in Lake Meredith Estates?
$31,250 (±$5,452) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lake Meredith Estates?
23.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lake Meredith Estates?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lake Meredith Estates work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Amarillo (19%, 34 mi), Borger (17%, 11 mi), Lubbock (5%, 146 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lake Meredith Estates without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lake Meredith Estates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lake Meredith Estates
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.