Red Rock has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Home is the office for 16% of workers; Texas has 14%. There are 75 jobs in Red Rock for 163 working residents. Hardly any work in Red Rock itself; outside it, Austin draws the most (36%, 30 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Red Rock
On a workday 162 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 74 people come in from elsewhere.
About 350 people are in Red Rock on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
Where people from Red Rock work
Where Red Rock clocks in
36% of workers
9% of workers
4% 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 Red Rock’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Red Rock, 2013 → 2023: 25 → 75. 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 Red Rock’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Red Rock
of Red Rock workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 128 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.
Miles to work from Red Rock
About 26% 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.
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 Red Rock: questions
What is the poverty rate in Red Rock?
0.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Red Rock work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Austin (36%, 30 mi), Bastrop (9%, 13 mi), San Antonio (4%, 73 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Red Rock 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 Red Rock, from the people who make the trip.
More of Red Rock
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.