About two in five of Lytle’s working residents commute to San Antonio
Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers; Texas has 14%. For jobs and income Lytle is better than 62% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (B). Only 5% work in Lytle; the top destination outside it is San Antonio (41%, 23 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Lytle in brief
Lytle trades workers with the towns around it
Lytle has about as many jobs (1,408) as working residents (1,248), but they are mostly different people: 1,186 residents leave for work each day while 1,346 people come in. Only 4% of the jobs in Lytle are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
41% of Lytle works in San Antonio
512 working residents, 41%, have their main job in San Antonio, 23 miles away. That’s 8 times as many as work in Lytle itself. The commute map ↓
Lytle has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Lytle went from 844 in 2013 to 1,408 in 2023, +67%. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Why Lytle gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Job access by car holds Lytle’s grade up (ahead of 79% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($70,685, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lytle could be anywhere from C to A+.
Lytle by day and by night
On a workday 1,186 residents head out to work, 62 work right here, and 1,346 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.13 per resident).
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 towns that employ Lytle’s residents
Where Lytle clocks in
41% 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.
The kinds of work in Lytle
1,408 jobs are based in Lytle.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lytle, 2013 → 2023: 844 → 1,408. 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 Lytle’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Lytle
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lytle workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,007 commuters (the 8% 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.
Miles to work from Lytle
About 30% 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.
Lytle is a driving town
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,093 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). 3.8% of Lytle households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lytle’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,900, Lytle ranks 1,690th of 4,474 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Talty TX | 3,299 | $155K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,688 | Ballville OH | 3,929 | $85K | 5.0% | 5.5% | 3% | B |
| 1,689 | Lebanon IL | 4,884 | $89K | 14.8% | 2.0% | 8% | B |
| 1,690 | Lytle TX | 3,626 | $71K | 8.8% | 4.1% | 5% | B |
| 1,691 | Wheatfield Township IN | 4,588 | $80K | 7.5% | 2.3% | 7% | B |
| 1,692 | Chester Township OH | 3,038 | $74K | 13.6% | 1.0% | 7% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,474 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Lytle, 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 Lytle: questions
What is the median household income in Lytle?
$70,685 (±$13,672) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lytle?
8.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lytle?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lytle work?
5% work in town.
Is Lytle walkable?
Lytle is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lytle without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lytle, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lytle
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.