Lakeport has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
5% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Employers in Lakeport report 208 jobs, against 388 working residents. Only 1% stay in Lakeport for work; outside it, Longview is the main destination (34%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Lakeport and work: the main findings
Fewer jobs are based in Lakeport than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Lakeport fell from 517 in 2014 to 208 in 2024, −60%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Lakeport and Longview trade workers both ways
Longview is the top workplace for Lakeport residents (34%) and also where the most people who work in Lakeport come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 388 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs in Lakeport: what the 208 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lakeport, 2014 → 2024: 517 → 208. 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 Lakeport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the trip to work from Lakeport ends
Where Lakeport 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 Lakeport to work
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The daily flow of workers through Lakeport
On a workday 384 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 204 people come in from elsewhere.
About 810 people are in Lakeport on a workday afternoon, 18% 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 2024, primary jobs.
About 24 minutes to work from Lakeport
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lakeport workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 482 commuters (the 5% 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.
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 Lakeport: questions
What is the median household income in Lakeport?
$63,646 (±$19,660) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lakeport?
17.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lakeport?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lakeport work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Longview (34%, 8 mi), Kilgore (6%, 9 mi), Tyler (5%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Lakeport without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lakeport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lakeport
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.