Households in Los Indios have lower incomes than those in 93% of U.S. towns
Hardly any stay in Los Indios for work; outside it, Harlingen is the main destination (25%, 10 miles). Poverty touches 19.4% of residents, against 13.8% across Texas. For jobs and income Los Indios is better than 14% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (D).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Los Indios: the gist
Income, poverty and work: Los Indios’ grade explained
Job access by car holds Los Indios’ grade up (ahead of 48% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($45,179, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (7.2%) is left out: Los Indios’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, Los Indios could be anywhere from D to C.
How a workday changes Los Indios
On a workday 322 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 40 people come in from elsewhere.
About 780 people are in Los Indios on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
0.12 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.
Where the trip to work from Los Indios ends
Where Los Indios clocks in
25% of workers
16% 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.
What the 40 jobs in Los Indios are
40 jobs are based in Los Indios.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Los Indios, 2013 → 2023: 60 → 40. 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 Los Indios’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Los Indios spends getting to work: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Los Indios workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 298 commuters (the 16% 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.
How many miles Los Indios commutes
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.
Few in Los Indios walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 355 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). 0.0% of Los Indios households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Los Indios’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Los Indios comes 2,341st on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Weston TX | 1,140 | $144K | 2.8% | 0.7% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Randolph AFB TX | 1,240 | $113K | 2.8% | 3.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,339 | Jackson WI | 1,183 | $60K | 15.9% | 5.3% | 1% | D |
| 2,340 | Royalton MN | 1,274 | $55K | 26.7% | 11.1% | 4% | D |
| 2,341 | Los Indios TX | 1,059 | $45K | 19.4% | 7.2% | 0% | D |
| 2,342 | Hurt VA | 1,234 | $59K | 16.7% | 2.5% | 3% | D |
| 2,343 | Huston Township PA | 1,232 | $61K | 14.7% | 1.7% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Los Indios, 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 Los Indios: questions
What is the median household income in Los Indios?
$45,179 (±$14,071) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Los Indios?
19.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Los Indios?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Los Indios work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harlingen (25%, 10 mi), Brownsville (16%, 16 mi), San Benito (7%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Los Indios walkable?
Los Indios is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Los Indios without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Los Indios, from the people who make the trip.
More of Los Indios
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.