A job hub: Point Comfort has 16.9 jobs per working resident, and 4,013 people come in to work
About one in ten stay in Point Comfort for work; outside it, Houston is the main destination (10%, 104 miles). There are 4,039 jobs in Point Comfort, against 239 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 6% 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
The commute and the jobs: Point Comfort in brief
Point Comfort fills up on a workday
Point Comfort has 4,039 jobs, 16.9 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 4,300 people are in town, 8 times the 550 who live here. Day and night ↓
Point Comfort makes and builds things
94% of the jobs based in Point Comfort are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Point Comfort residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 39%. The jobs ↓
Point Comfort’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Point Comfort is Houston, 105 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (25) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. 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 239 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The workday shuffle in and out of Point Comfort
On a workday 213 residents head out to work and 26 work right here.
About 4,300 people are in Point Comfort on a workday afternoon, 693% 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.
Goods, not services: 94% of the jobs in Point Comfort
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Point Comfort, 2013 → 2023: 2,868 → 4,039. 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 Point Comfort’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Point Comfort’s commute, mile by mile
About 49% 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.
The daily trip into Point Comfort
Where Point Comfort clocks in
10% of workers
10% of workers
5% 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.
Each way, about 30 minutes from Point Comfort
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Point Comfort workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 128 commuters (the 6% 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 Point Comfort: questions
What is the median household income in Point Comfort?
$142,500 (±$89,303) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Point Comfort?
7.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Point Comfort?
30 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Point Comfort work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (10%, 104 mi), Port Lavaca (10%, 6 mi), Victoria (5%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Point Comfort 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 Point Comfort, from the people who make the trip.
More of Point Comfort
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.