Photo: Ernest Mettendorf · Public domainAt 0.8%, unemployment in Needville is lower than in 96% of U.S. towns
Only 7% work in Needville; the top destination outside it is Houston (26%, 38 miles). The two grades for Needville are B+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, 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 stands out about work in Needville
Needville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Needville is Houston, 38 miles away as the crow flies. 26% of working residents (406) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Needville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 36 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 276 hours of commuting, 69 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Needville
64% of Needville residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 37% of the jobs based in Needville pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 93% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Needville pay little
27% of the jobs based in Needville pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 33% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. 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.
Where Needville’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Needville is better than 69% of U.S. towns, #209 of 642 in Texas. Unemployment holds Needville’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (14.7%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Needville could be anywhere from C+ to A+.
How many miles Needville commutes
About 18% 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.
Needville’s commute takes about 36 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Needville workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,195 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.
The kinds of work in Needville
599 jobs are based in Needville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Needville, 2013 → 2023: 720 → 599. 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 Needville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Needville
On a workday 1,443 residents head out to work, 101 work right here, and 498 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Needville on a workday afternoon, 30% fewer than live here.
0.39 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.
Where Needville’s working residents head each day
Where Needville clocks in
26% 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.
For most of Needville, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Needville is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns, #428 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.7% 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 1,257 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 13.2% of Needville households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Needville’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,278th of 4,562: where Needville ranks among U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Talty TX | 3,299 | $155K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,276 | Chebanse Township IL | 2,782 | $83K | 8.0% | 1.3% | 9% | B+ |
| 1,277 | Tilden Township PA | 3,718 | $80K | 6.5% | 3.6% | 9% | B+ |
| 1,278 | Needville TX | 3,114 | $71K | 14.7% | 0.8% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,279 | Sweeny TX | 3,594 | $73K | 3.3% | 2.3% | 11% | B+ |
| 1,280 | Clinton WI | 2,336 | $72K | 5.9% | 4.2% | 15% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,562 | 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 Needville, 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 Needville: questions
What is the median household income in Needville?
$70,900 (±$28,506) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Needville?
14.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Needville?
36 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Needville work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (26%, 38 mi), Rosenberg (15%, 10 mi), Sugar Land (7%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Needville walkable?
Needville is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Needville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Needville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Needville
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.