Photo: WhisperToMe · Public domainHouseholds in Manchaca earn more than those in 96% of U.S. towns
Manchaca grades A+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. 0.9% of residents live below the poverty line, against 13.8% across Texas. The trip to work takes 29 minutes on average (Texas 27, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Manchaca, in brief
More than half of Manchaca works in Austin
810 working residents, 65%, have their main job in Austin, 12 miles away across the town line. That’s 65 times as many as work in Manchaca itself. The commute map ↓
Manchaca trades workers with the towns around it
Manchaca has about as many jobs (1,187) as working residents (1,254), but they are mostly different people: 1,244 residents leave for work each day while 1,177 people come in. Only 1% of the jobs in Manchaca are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Manchaca makes and builds things
49% of the jobs based in Manchaca are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Manchaca residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 11%. The jobs ↓
Manchaca has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Manchaca went from 735 in 2013 to 1,187 in 2023, +61%. 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.
Inside Manchaca’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Manchaca is better than 98% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input; unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (2.9%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Manchaca could be anywhere from A− to A+.
65% of working residents work in Austin
Where Manchaca clocks in
65% of workers
3% 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.
Manchaca by day and by night
On a workday 1,244 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 1,177 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 (0.95 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.
In Manchaca, 49% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
1,187 jobs are based in Manchaca.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Manchaca, 2013 → 2023: 735 → 1,187. 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 Manchaca’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Manchaca’s commute 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 Manchaca workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,074 commuters (the 18% 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 Manchaca works
About 17% 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.
Most of Manchaca commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Manchaca is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Manchaca 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 1,314 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 59% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Manchaca households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Manchaca’s commuters take a bus or train.
Manchaca is 67th of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Southside Place TX | 1,916 | $163K | 5.0% | 5.4% | 2% | A+ |
| 24 | Shoreacres TX | 1,535 | $131K | 3.2% | 2.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Del Rio CA | 1,508 | $250K | 0.0% | 2.2% | <1% | A+ |
| 66 | Coldstream OH | 1,540 | $232K | 0.6% | 1.9% | 1% | A+ |
| 67 | Manchaca TX | 2,171 | $155K | 0.9% | 2.9% | 1% | A+ |
| 68 | Ohio Township KS | 2,219 | $158K | 0.6% | 0.6% | 4% | A+ |
| 69 | Delapre Township SD | 2,053 | $141K | 1.2% | 0.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Manchaca, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
The towns next door employ 65% of Manchaca
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Austin. Darker towns draw more of Manchaca’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 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 Manchaca: questions
What is the median household income in Manchaca?
$155,313 (±$68,691) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Manchaca?
0.9%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Manchaca?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Manchaca work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Austin (65%, 12 mi), San Antonio (3%, 62 mi), San Marcos (3%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Manchaca walkable?
Manchaca is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Manchaca without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Manchaca, from the people who make the trip.
More of Manchaca
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.