Photo: Travis K. Witt · CC BY-SA 4.0Unemployment in Lampasas (3.1%) is lower than in 68% of U.S. towns
A typical one-way commute lasts 24 minutes; Texas averages 27, the U.S. 26. Home is the office for 5% of workers, where Texas as a whole has 14%. About one in five work in Lampasas; the top destination outside it is Austin (13%, 59 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Lampasas, in brief
Lampasas’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Lampasas is Austin, 59 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (437) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
45% 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 ↓
Lampasas makes and builds things
36% of the jobs based in Lampasas are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Lampasas residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
What’s behind Lampasas’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lampasas is better than 36% of U.S. towns, #382 of 642 in Texas. Unemployment holds Lampasas’ grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (15.1%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lampasas could be anywhere from D to B.
Near or far: the trip to work from Lampasas
About 45% 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.
Making and building: 36% of jobs based in Lampasas
2,715 jobs are based in Lampasas.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lampasas, 2013 → 2023: 2,852 → 2,715. 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 Lampasas’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Lampasas by day and by night
On a workday 2,694 residents head out to work, 675 work right here, and 2,040 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.81 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places Lampasas commutes to
Where Lampasas clocks in
13% of workers
4% 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.
About 24 minutes each way, quicker than most of Texas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lampasas workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,251 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.
Few in Lampasas walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lampasas is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns, #171 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place Lampasas 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 3,432 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). 6.1% of Lampasas households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lampasas’ commuters take a bus or train.
Lampasas is 2,150th of 3,015 U.S. towns of 5,600 to 10,800 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Alamo Heights TX | 7,632 | $183K | 2.5% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Oak Point TX | 6,909 | $126K | 1.5% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,148 | Houghton MI | 8,560 | $43K | 40.1% | 10.3% | 41% | C+ |
| 2,149 | Geneva OH | 5,806 | $54K | 17.1% | 2.9% | 17% | C+ |
| 2,150 | Lampasas TX | 7,988 | $67K | 15.1% | 3.1% | 20% | C+ |
| 2,151 | Madison Township OH | 6,468 | $59K | 16.1% | 1.5% | 21% | C+ |
| 2,152 | Dexter MO | 7,851 | $52K | 17.0% | 1.4% | 33% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,015 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Lampasas, 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 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 Lampasas: questions
What is the median household income in Lampasas?
$67,229 (±$10,797) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lampasas?
15.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lampasas?
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 Lampasas work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Austin (13%, 59 mi), Killeen (4%, 27 mi), Copperas Cove (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lampasas walkable?
Lampasas is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lampasas without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lampasas, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lampasas
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. 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.