Seco Mines has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Below the poverty line: 83.1% of residents (Texas 13.8%). Seco Mines has 32 jobs, and 216 of its residents work somewhere. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Texas has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Seco Mines
Seco Mines and Eagle Pass trade workers both ways
Eagle Pass is the top workplace for Seco Mines residents (39%) and also where the most people who work in Seco Mines come from (41% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Seco Mines is a place people come home to
There are 32 jobs based in Seco Mines, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Seco Mines has about 460 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% 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 ↓
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 216 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
39% of working residents work in Eagle Pass
Where Seco Mines clocks in
39% of workers
12% 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.
In and out of Seco Mines on a workday
On a workday 215 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 460 people are in Seco Mines on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Seco Mines
About 36% 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 Seco Mines’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Seco Mines, 2013 → 2023: 26 → 32. 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 Seco Mines’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Seco Mines
of Seco Mines workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 250 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.
Next door is work for 39% of Seco Mines
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Seco Mines workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seco Mines | – | — | — | — | — |
| Eagle Pass | 39% | D | B+ | 20 min | $57,207 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Eagle Pass. Darker towns draw more of Seco Mines’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Seco Mines: questions
What is the poverty rate in Seco Mines?
83.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Seco Mines work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eagle Pass (39%, 4 mi), San Antonio (12%, 129 mi), Eidson Road (7%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Seco Mines 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 Seco Mines, from the people who make the trip.
More of Seco Mines
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.