Households in Pinewood Estates earn more than those in 96% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Texas has 14%. 1.1% of residents live below the poverty line (Texas 13.8%). Pinewood Estates grades A for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Pinewood Estates, in brief
Pinewood Estates is a place people come home to
There are 55 jobs based in Pinewood Estates, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Pinewood Estates has about 890 people in it, 42% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Pinewood Estates and Beaumont trade workers both ways
Beaumont is the top workplace for Pinewood Estates residents (31%) and also where the most people who work in Pinewood Estates come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Pinewood Estates workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 685 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Pinewood Estates’ grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Pinewood Estates is better than 93% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Pinewood Estates’ grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 48% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.8%) is left out: Pinewood Estates’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Pinewood Estates stays A.
Who works in Pinewood Estates, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 680 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 50 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Pinewood Estates on a workday afternoon, 42% fewer than live here.
0.08 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.
31% of working residents work in Beaumont
Where Pinewood Estates clocks in
31% of workers
12% of workers
7% 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.
Commuting from Pinewood Estates: about 33 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pinewood Estates workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 651 commuters (the 0% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Pinewood Estates
55 jobs are based in Pinewood Estates.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pinewood Estates, 2013 → 2023: 56 → 55. 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 Pinewood Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Pinewood Estates
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.
Most of Pinewood Estates commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pinewood Estates is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Pinewood Estates 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 651 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). 0.0% of Pinewood Estates households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pinewood Estates’ commuters take a bus or train.
217th of 5,397: where Pinewood Estates ranks among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 26 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 215 | Coburg OR | 1,373 | $98K | 1.5% | 8.9% | 5% | A |
| 216 | Williston Township ND | 1,116 | $250K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 8% | A |
| 217 | Pinewood Estates TX | 1,516 | $158K | 1.1% | 0.8% | 1% | A |
| 218 | Cruger Township IL | 1,837 | $108K | 1.1% | 3.2% | 5% | A |
| 219 | Dale Township IL | 1,232 | $133K | 3.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,397 | 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 Pinewood Estates, 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 Pinewood Estates: questions
What is the median household income in Pinewood Estates?
$157,553 (±$47,090) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pinewood Estates?
1.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pinewood Estates?
33 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pinewood Estates work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Beaumont (31%, 12 mi), Sour Lake (12%, 6 mi), Houston (7%, 69 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pinewood Estates walkable?
Pinewood Estates is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pinewood Estates without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pinewood Estates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pinewood Estates
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.