With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Meadowlakes works elsewhere
Meadowlakes grades C+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Employers in Meadowlakes report 116 jobs, against 804 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 21% of workers, next to 14% for Texas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Meadowlakes stands out on work
Meadowlakes is a place people come home to
There are 116 jobs based in Meadowlakes, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Meadowlakes has about 1,100 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Meadowlakes and Marble Falls trade workers both ways
Marble Falls is the top workplace for Meadowlakes residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Meadowlakes come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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; with 804 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Meadowlakes’ Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Meadowlakes is better than 44% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Meadowlakes’ grade up (8.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (4.6%) is left out: Meadowlakes’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Meadowlakes could be anywhere from C− to B+.
How a workday changes Meadowlakes
On a workday 802 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 114 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Meadowlakes on a workday afternoon, 38% fewer 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.
22% of working residents work in Marble Falls
Where Meadowlakes clocks in
22% of workers
18% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Meadowlakes
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.
Jobs in Meadowlakes: what the 116 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Meadowlakes, 2013 → 2023: 65 → 116. 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 Meadowlakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Meadowlakes takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Meadowlakes workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 557 commuters (the 21% 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.
In Meadowlakes, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Meadowlakes is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Meadowlakes 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 707 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 Meadowlakes households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Meadowlakes’ commuters take a bus or train.
Meadowlakes is 2,521st of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 25 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,519 | Hinckley IL | 1,996 | $87K | 10.0% | 11.2% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,520 | North Lewisburg OH | 1,657 | $59K | 8.4% | 9.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,521 | Meadowlakes TX | 1,831 | $79K | 8.2% | 4.6% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,522 | Alpine WY | 1,382 | $99K | 8.0% | 0.0% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,523 | Cazenovia Township IL | 1,610 | $74K | 9.5% | 7.5% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Meadowlakes, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Bordering towns draw 22% of Meadowlakes’ workers
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Meadowlakes workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowlakes | – | C+ | C | 27 min | $79,050 |
| Marble Falls | 22% | C+ | B+ | 15 min | $57,925 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Marble Falls. Darker towns draw more of Meadowlakes’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 Meadowlakes: questions
What is the median household income in Meadowlakes?
$79,050 (±$13,272) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Meadowlakes?
8.2%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Meadowlakes?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Meadowlakes work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marble Falls (22%, 1 mi), Austin (18%, 37 mi), Horseshoe Bay (3%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Meadowlakes walkable?
Meadowlakes is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Meadowlakes 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 Meadowlakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Meadowlakes
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.