Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Marble Falls has 2.0 jobs for every working resident: 5,938 people commute in to work
Marble Falls has 6,835 jobs, against 3,402 working residents. The two grades for Marble Falls are C+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. 5% of workers have no commute at all, where Texas as a whole has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Marble Falls
Commutes from Marble Falls are quick
The average trip to work takes 15 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
Marble Falls is where the jobs are
Marble Falls has 6,835 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Marble Falls’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Marble Falls is Austin, 36 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (502) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Marble Falls draws workers from far and wide
The 6,835 jobs in Marble Falls are filled from a wide area. Marble Falls’ own residents hold 13% and the ten next-biggest home towns 30%; the other 57% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
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.
Why Marble Falls gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Marble Falls is better than 37% of U.S. towns, #369 of 642 in Texas. Unemployment holds Marble Falls’ grade up (2.0%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($57,925, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Marble Falls could be anywhere from C− to B−.
A commute of about 15 minutes in Marble Falls
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marble Falls workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,575 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.
How many people are in Marble Falls by day
On a workday 2,505 residents head out to work and 897 work right here.
About 13,000 people are in Marble Falls on a workday afternoon, 36% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Miles to work from Marble Falls
About 28% 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.
Commuting in to Marble Falls: where workers come from
Where Marble Falls clocks in
15% of workers
5% 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 Marble Falls
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marble Falls, 2013 → 2023: 5,943 → 6,835. 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 Marble Falls’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Marble Falls, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marble Falls is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns, #120 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,779 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). 4.4% of Marble Falls households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Marble Falls’ commuters take a bus or train.
Marble Falls is 2,012th of 2,816 U.S. towns of 6,700 to 13,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Alamo Heights TX | 7,632 | $183K | 2.5% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Oak Point TX | 6,909 | $126K | 1.5% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,010 | Rincon GA | 11,726 | $74K | 9.0% | 9.5% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,011 | Burkburnett TX | 11,057 | $66K | 16.7% | 3.5% | 19% | C+ |
| 2,012 | Marble Falls TX | 9,633 | $58K | 15.5% | 2.0% | 26% | C+ |
| 2,013 | Geneva Township OH | 10,061 | $59K | 16.4% | 3.1% | 19% | C+ |
| 2,014 | Crestline CA | 9,835 | $78K | 11.3% | 7.0% | 9% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,816 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Marble Falls, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Marble Falls and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Marble Falls workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marble Falls | – | C+ | B+ | 15 min | $57,925 |
| Meadowlakes | under 2% | C+ | C | 27 min | $79,050 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Marble Falls’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 Marble Falls: questions
What is the median household income in Marble Falls?
$57,925 (±$6,969) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marble Falls?
15.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marble Falls?
15 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marble Falls work?
26% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Austin (15%, 36 mi), Horseshoe Bay (5%, 6 mi), San Antonio (3%, 77 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Marble Falls walkable?
Marble Falls is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marble Falls without a car?
1% 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 Marble Falls, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marble Falls
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.