Huebner-Onion Homestead and Stagecoach Stop · Photo: 25or6to4 · CC BY-SA 3.0San Antonio draws about two in three of Leon Valley’s working residents
Only 6% work in Leon Valley itself; outside it, San Antonio draws the most (65%, 6 miles). Leon Valley grades C+ for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 8.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 7.5 in San Antonio.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Leon Valley, in a few figures
Leon Valley fills up on a workday
Leon Valley has 24,177 jobs, 4.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 31,000 people are in town, more than double the 12,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
More than half of Leon Valley works in San Antonio
3,359 working residents, 65%, have their main job in San Antonio, 5.8 miles away. That’s 11 times as many as work in Leon Valley itself. The commute map ↓
Nearly all the work in Leon Valley is services
91% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 1% are in factories, building or farms. 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 drives the Jobs & income grade in Leon Valley
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Leon Valley is better than 40% of U.S. towns, #347 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds Leon Valley’s grade up (ahead of 95% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (7.1%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Leon Valley could be anywhere from C to B.
Leon Valley by day and by night
On a workday 4,901 residents head out to work, 288 work right here, and 23,889 people come in from elsewhere.
About 31,000 people are in Leon Valley on a workday afternoon, 164% more than live here.
4.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Where Leon Valley’s workforce comes from
Where Leon Valley clocks in
65% of workers
4% of workers
2% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Leon Valley
24,177 jobs are based in Leon Valley.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Leon Valley, 2013 → 2023: 18,575 → 24,177. 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 Leon Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 28 minutes each way for Leon Valley’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Leon Valley workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,824 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Leon Valley
About 19% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Leon Valley
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Leon Valley is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns, #59 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.5% of 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 5,277 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 21% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 8.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 92% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 14.1% of Leon Valley households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Leon Valley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Leon Valley next to U.S. towns of 8,000 to 16,000: 1,856th of 2,695 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Lucas TX | 8,896 | $221K | 1.3% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Lantana TX | 12,766 | $199K | 0.6% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,854 | Rhinelander WI | 8,242 | $51K | 12.8% | 1.0% | 42% | C+ |
| 1,855 | Destrehan LA | 11,619 | $91K | 17.3% | 12.0% | 5% | C+ |
| 1,856 | Leon Valley TX | 11,563 | $59K | 12.9% | 7.1% | 6% | C+ |
| 1,857 | Coolspring Township IN | 15,408 | $62K | 17.0% | 4.0% | 13% | C+ |
| 1,858 | Middlebury VT | 9,208 | $86K | 10.7% | 5.0% | 56% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,695 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Leon Valley, 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 Leon Valley: questions
What is the median household income in Leon Valley?
$59,481 (±$3,561) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Leon Valley?
12.9%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Leon Valley?
28 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Leon Valley work?
6% work in town.
Is Leon Valley walkable?
Leon Valley is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 12.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Leon Valley without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. 21% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Leon Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Leon Valley
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.