Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Seguin has lower household incomes than 66% of U.S. towns
About one in four work in Seguin itself; outside it, San Antonio draws the most (17%, 35 miles). The poverty rate is 17.1%; Texas has 13.8%. Jobs and income earn Seguin C+; getting around on foot earns it B−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Seguin at work: what stands out
Seguin’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Seguin is San Antonio, 35 miles away as the crow flies. 17% of working residents (2,585) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Seguin makes and builds things
46% of the jobs based in Seguin are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Seguin residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 27%. The jobs ↓
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.
The figures behind Seguin’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Seguin is better than 41% of U.S. towns, #343 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds Seguin’s grade up (ahead of 71% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Seguin could be anywhere from C to B.
How far it is to work from Seguin
About 23% 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.
Goods jobs make up 46% of work in Seguin
18,942 jobs are based in Seguin.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Seguin, 2013 → 2023: 14,194 → 18,942. 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 Seguin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Seguin fills up on a workday
On a workday 10,548 residents head out to work, 4,413 work right here, and 14,529 people come in from elsewhere.
About 45,000 people are in Seguin on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.27 per resident).
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 Seguin goes to work
Where Seguin clocks in
17% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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.
How long Seguin spends getting to work: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Seguin workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 14,732 commuters (the 10% 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.
Driving is how Seguin gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Seguin is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns, #320 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 16,307 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.5% of Seguin households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Seguin’s commuters take a bus or train.
Seguin places 799th of 1,019 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 29,000 to 55,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Keller TX | 46,078 | $175K | 3.4% | 2.7% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Coppell TX | 41,386 | $146K | 5.4% | 2.6% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 797 | Austintown Township OH | 35,477 | $57K | 15.7% | 4.1% | 15% | C+ |
| 798 | Spring Valley NY | 34,482 | $57K | 27.6% | 4.2% | 10% | C+ |
| 799 | Seguin TX | 41,048 | $65K | 17.1% | 4.4% | 29% | C+ |
| 800 | Pullman WA | 33,756 | $47K | 30.4% | 8.3% | 60% | C+ |
| 801 | El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) CA | 31,626 | $92K | 13.1% | 6.3% | 29% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,019 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Seguin, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Seguin and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Geronimo (1%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Seguin’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 Seguin: questions
What is the median household income in Seguin?
$64,861 (±$5,014) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Seguin?
17.1%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Seguin?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Seguin work?
29% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Antonio (17%, 35 mi), Austin (8%, 51 mi), New Braunfels (8%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Seguin walkable?
Seguin is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Seguin without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Seguin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Seguin
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.