A job hub: Round Mountain has 2.0 jobs per working resident, and 89 people come in to work
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers (Texas 14%). Employers in Round Mountain report 89 jobs, against 45 working residents. Hardly any work in Round Mountain; the top destination outside it is Austin (16%, 37 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Round Mountain
On a workday 45 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 150 people are in Round Mountain on a workday afternoon, 40% 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.
Where Round Mountain’s workers come from
Where Round Mountain clocks in
16% of workers
9% 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.
Round Mountain makes things: 48% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Round Mountain, 2013 → 2023: 39 → 89. 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 Round Mountain’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 21 minutes from Round Mountain
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Round Mountain workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 50 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.
Round Mountain’s commute, mile by mile
About 29% 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 Round Mountain: questions
What is the median household income in Round Mountain?
$74,911 (±$46,414) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Round Mountain?
3.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Round Mountain?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Round Mountain work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Austin (16%, 37 mi), Marble Falls (9%, 12 mi), Johnson City (7%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Round Mountain without a car?
10% 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 Round Mountain, from the people who make the trip.
More of Round Mountain
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.