Medina Dam · Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0More people are out of work in Lakehills (8.8%) than in 91% of U.S. towns
Only 3% stay in Lakehills for work; outside it, San Antonio is the main destination (34%, 28 miles). Lakehills grades C for jobs and income and D for walkability. The trip to work takes 50 minutes on average, where Texas has 27 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Lakehills in brief
Lakehills workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 50 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 383 hours of commuting, 176 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Lakehills makes and builds things
61% of the jobs based in Lakehills are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Lakehills residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 18%. The jobs ↓
Lakehills is a place people come home to
There are 361 jobs based in Lakehills, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Lakehills has about 4,200 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Lakehills and San Antonio trade workers both ways
San Antonio is the top workplace for Lakehills residents (34%) and also where the most people who work in Lakehills come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
35% of the jobs based in Lakehills are held by workers 29 or younger, against 20% of Lakehills’ own working residents. The jobs ↓
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.
The figures behind Lakehills’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lakehills is better than 28% of U.S. towns, #443 of 642 in Texas. Household income holds Lakehills’ grade up ($90,110, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lakehills could be anywhere from C− to B−.
About 50 minutes to work from Lakehills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 16 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lakehills workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,599 commuters (the 10% 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.
Lakehills works in goods: 61% of its jobs
361 jobs are based in Lakehills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lakehills, 2014 → 2024: 154 → 361. 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 Lakehills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Lakehills by day
On a workday 2,245 residents head out to work, 68 work right here, and 293 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,200 people are in Lakehills on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than live here.
0.16 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 towns that employ Lakehills’ residents
Where Lakehills clocks in
34% of workers
6% 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.
The distance from Lakehills to work
About 26% 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.
The commute in Lakehills is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lakehills is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns, #599 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place Lakehills near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,886 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). 1.8% of Lakehills households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lakehills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Lakehills is 2,578th among 3,370 U.S. towns of 4,300 to 8,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Garden Ridge TX | 4,371 | $177K | 0.4% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,576 | Beacon Square FL | 7,895 | $57K | 15.6% | 5.8% | 1% | C |
| 2,577 | Glendive MT | 4,736 | $73K | 13.5% | 4.3% | 46% | C |
| 2,578 | Lakehills TX | 6,130 | $90K | 12.4% | 8.8% | 3% | C |
| 2,579 | Harlan IA | 4,859 | $57K | 9.1% | 4.8% | 43% | C |
| 2,580 | Columbia Falls MT | 5,753 | $76K | 15.2% | 5.6% | 17% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,370 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Lakehills, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Work in the towns next to Lakehills
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lakehills workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakehills | – | C | D | 50 min | $90,110 |
| Lake Medina Shores | under 1% | D− | D | 58 min | $47,147 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lakehills’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 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 Lakehills: questions
What is the median household income in Lakehills?
$90,110 (±$8,398) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lakehills?
12.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lakehills?
50 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lakehills work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Antonio (34%, 28 mi), Bandera (6%, 10 mi), Boerne (5%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Lakehills walkable?
Lakehills is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lakehills without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lakehills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lakehills
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.