Placedo has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Hardly any stay in Placedo for work; outside it, Victoria is the main destination (22%, 14 miles). Placedo has 22 jobs, and 227 of its residents work somewhere. Working from home is the commute for 16% 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
Placedo and work: the main findings
Placedo is a place people come home to
There are 22 jobs based in Placedo, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Placedo has about 330 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
50% 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 ↓
Placedo and Victoria trade workers both ways
Victoria is the top workplace for Placedo residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Placedo come from (23% of its jobs). 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; with 227 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How many people are in Placedo by day
On a workday 227 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 22 people come in from elsewhere.
About 330 people are in Placedo 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Placedo
About 50% 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.
Where the trip to work from Placedo ends
Where Placedo clocks in
22% of workers
6% 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.
What Placedo’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Placedo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Placedo
of Placedo workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 194 commuters (the 16% 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.
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 Placedo: questions
What is the poverty rate in Placedo?
24.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Placedo work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Victoria (22%, 14 mi), Point Comfort (7%, 16 mi), Houston (6%, 115 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Placedo without a car?
0% 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 Placedo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Placedo
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.