Earning a living in Lasara
Hardly any stay in Lasara for work; outside it, Raymondville is the main destination (10%, 8 miles). Lasara grades D− for walkability. Commuters spend 26 minutes getting to work on average; Texas averages 27, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Lasara stands out on work
Lasara is a place people come home to
There are 0 jobs based in Lasara, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 329 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Who leaves Lasara for work, and who comes in
On a workday 329 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Lasara on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.00 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 2023, primary jobs.
How far Lasara goes to work
About 31% 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.
Out of Lasara to work: where people go
Where Lasara clocks in
10% of workers
10% of workers
8% 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 26 minutes to work from Lasara
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lasara workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 535 commuters (the 15% 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.
Getting around Lasara: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lasara is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Lasara 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 630 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). 2.3% of Lasara households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lasara’s commuters take a bus or train.
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 Lasara: questions
What is the poverty rate in Lasara?
16.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lasara?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lasara work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Raymondville (10%, 8 mi), Harlingen (10%, 23 mi), McAllen (8%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lasara walkable?
Lasara is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lasara 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 Lasara, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lasara
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.