Photo: US government · Public domainLake View has 0.0 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Hardly any stay in Lake View for work; outside it, Del Rio is the main destination (39%, 7 miles). Lake View has 2 jobs, against 61 working residents. Home is the office 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 Lake View
On a workday 61 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 290 people are in Lake View on a workday afternoon, 17% 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 Lake View ends
Where Lake View clocks in
39% of workers
16% of workers
5% 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.
A place that makes things: 100% of Lake View’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lake View, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 2. 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 View’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Lake View
of Lake View workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 134 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.
Where in the region Lake View works
About 52% 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 View: questions
What is the poverty rate in Lake View?
50.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Lake View work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Del Rio (39%, 7 mi), San Antonio (16%, 146 mi), Austin (5%, 200 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lake View 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 Lake View, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lake View
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.