Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0There are 6.9 jobs in Round Top for every working resident, and 251 people commute in
About one in ten work in Round Top itself; outside it, Austin draws the most (14%, 65 miles). Round Top has 254 jobs; 37 of its residents have a job. Home is the office for 5% of workers (Texas 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Round Top, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 34 residents head out to work and 3 work right here.
About 310 people are in Round Top on a workday afternoon, 228% more than live here.
6.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Where the people who work in Round Top live
Where Round Top clocks in
14% of workers
8% 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.
The kinds of work in Round Top
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Round Top, 2013 → 2023: 116 → 254. 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 Top’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 21 minutes in Round Top
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Round Top workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 54 commuters (the 5% 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.
How far it is to work from Round Top
About 51% 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 Top: questions
What is the median household income in Round Top?
$150,000 (±$44,691) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Round Top?
1.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Round Top?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Round Top work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Austin (14%, 65 mi), San Antonio (8%, 117 mi), Carmine (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Round Top 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 Round Top, from the people who make the trip.
More of Round Top
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.