Photo: Nsaum75 · CC BY-SA 3.0How Lovelady works: jobs, income and commuting
For 0% of workers, the job is at home; Texas has 14%. Only 2% stay in Lovelady for work; outside it, Houston is the main destination (15%, 93 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 61 minutes; Texas averages 27, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Lovelady for work, and who comes in
On a workday 126 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 203 people come in from elsewhere.
About 670 people are in Lovelady on a workday afternoon, 13% more than live here.
1.6 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Lovelady’s workers come from
Where Lovelady clocks in
15% of workers
9% 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.
Most jobs in Lovelady are in services
206 jobs are based in Lovelady.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lovelady, 2014 → 2024: 184 → 206. 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 Lovelady’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Lovelady’s commute takes about 61 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 19.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lovelady workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 242 commuters (the 0% 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.
Half of Lovelady commutes less than 77 miles
About 64% 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.
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 Lovelady: questions
What is the median household income in Lovelady?
$47,500 (±$34,239) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lovelady?
6.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lovelady?
61 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lovelady work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (15%, 93 mi), Huntsville (9%, 30 mi), Crockett (8%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Lovelady 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 Lovelady, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lovelady
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.