Photo: Lothar1976 · Public domainWork means Abilene for about half of Lueders’ working residents
Commuters spend 44 minutes getting to work on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers; Texas has 14%. Hardly any stay in Lueders for work; outside it, Abilene is the main destination (45%, 25 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Lueders for work, and who comes in
On a workday 113 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 51 people come in from elsewhere.
About 200 people are in Lueders on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.46 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.
The places Lueders commutes to
Where Lueders clocks in
45% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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.
In Lueders, services account for most jobs
52 jobs are based in Lueders.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lueders, 2013 → 2023: 56 → 52. 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 Lueders’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Lueders: about 44 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lueders workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 78 commuters (the 5% 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.
Where in the region Lueders works
About 42% 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.
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 Lueders: questions
What is the poverty rate in Lueders?
19.9%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lueders?
44 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lueders work?
1% work in town.
Can you get around Lueders 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 Lueders, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lueders
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.