Wichita Falls draws more than half of Lakeside City’s working residents
Measured by household income, Lakeside City is ahead of 85% of U.S. towns. The two grades for Lakeside City are A for jobs and income and D for walkability. Hardly any stay in Lakeside City for work; outside it, Wichita Falls is the main destination (56%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Lakeside City stands out on work
Lakeside City is a place people come home to
There are 52 jobs based in Lakeside City, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Lakeside City has about 780 people in it, 41% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Most Lakeside City residents work close to home
62% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. 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 583 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Lakeside City
On income, poverty and job access, Lakeside City is better than 88% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lakeside City’s grade up (2.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 48% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Lakeside City’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Lakeside City could be anywhere from A− to A.
Where people from Lakeside City work
Where Lakeside City clocks in
56% of workers
3% 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 daily commute in and out of Lakeside City
On a workday 578 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 47 people come in from elsewhere.
About 780 people are in Lakeside City on a workday afternoon, 41% fewer than live here.
0.09 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.
Lakeside City’s commute, mile by mile
About 29% 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.
Jobs in Lakeside City: what the 52 are
52 jobs are based in Lakeside City.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lakeside City, 2014 → 2024: 126 → 52. 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 Lakeside City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Lakeside City: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lakeside City workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 488 commuters (the 9% 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.
The commute in Lakeside City is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lakeside City is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 537 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). 2.5% of Lakeside City households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lakeside City’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Lakeside City ranks: 302nd of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| 30 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 300 | Mantorville MN | 1,106 | $110K | 2.7% | 2.9% | 3% | A |
| 301 | Ko Olina HI | 1,670 | $133K | 6.8% | 0.8% | 9% | A |
| 302 | Lakeside City TX | 1,307 | $114K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 1% | A |
| 303 | Rock Creek AL | 1,103 | $84K | 2.5% | 2.8% | <1% | A |
| 304 | Farmingdale NJ | 1,502 | $89K | 5.7% | 11.2% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Lakeside City, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
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 Lakeside City: questions
What is the median household income in Lakeside City?
$113,636 (±$13,121) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lakeside City?
2.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lakeside City?
20 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lakeside City work?
1% work in town.
Is Lakeside City walkable?
Lakeside City is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lakeside City 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 Lakeside City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lakeside City
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.