With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Little Cypress works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Little Cypress B−; getting around on foot earns it D. Employers in Little Cypress report 157 jobs, against 849 working residents. For 3% of workers, the job is at home, next to 14% for Texas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Little Cypress in brief
Fewer jobs are based in Little Cypress than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Little Cypress fell from 632 in 2014 to 157 in 2024, −75%. 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 ↓
Little Cypress is a place people come home to
There are 157 jobs based in Little Cypress, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Little Cypress has about 1,300 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Little Cypress and Orange trade workers both ways
Orange is the top workplace for Little Cypress residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Little Cypress come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 849 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Little Cypress gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Little Cypress is better than 52% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Little Cypress’ grade up ($91,199, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.4%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (0.7%) is left out: Little Cypress’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Little Cypress could be anywhere from C to A−.
Factories, building and farms: 52% of the jobs in Little Cypress
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Little Cypress, 2014 → 2024: 632 → 157. 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 Little Cypress’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Little Cypress quiets down on a workday
On a workday 842 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 150 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Little Cypress on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
17% of working residents work in Orange
Where Little Cypress clocks in
17% of workers
17% of workers
7% 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.
Getting to work from Little Cypress takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Little Cypress workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 763 commuters (the 3% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Little Cypress
About 32% 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.
For most of Little Cypress, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Little Cypress is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Little Cypress 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 787 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). 6.9% of Little Cypress households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Little Cypress’ commuters take a bus or train.
Little Cypress places 2,116th of 5,509 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| 22 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | 0% | A+ |
| 23 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,114 | Cormorant Township MN | 1,405 | $103K | 6.9% | 0.7% | 5% | B− |
| 2,115 | East Deer Township PA | 1,417 | $66K | 12.8% | 4.8% | 2% | B− |
| 2,116 | Little Cypress TX | 1,963 | $91K | 13.4% | 0.7% | 1% | B− |
| 2,117 | Altamont IL | 2,186 | $76K | 15.1% | 0.3% | 13% | B− |
| 2,118 | Mount Haley Township MI | 1,600 | $77K | 8.0% | 8.0% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Little Cypress, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
17% of Little Cypress works in a town next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Little Cypress workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Cypress | – | B− | D | 29 min | $91,199 |
| Orange | 17% | C− | C+ | 23 min | $62,891 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Orange. Darker towns draw more of Little Cypress’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Little Cypress: questions
What is the median household income in Little Cypress?
$91,199 (±$20,067) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Little Cypress?
13.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Little Cypress?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Little Cypress work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orange (17%, 4 mi), Beaumont (17%, 24 mi), Houston (7%, 101 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Little Cypress walkable?
Little Cypress is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Little Cypress without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Little Cypress, from the people who make the trip.
More of Little Cypress
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.