Walker House · Photo: Jim Evans · CC BY-SA 4.0Shoreacres’ household incomes are higher than in 92% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Shoreacres A+; getting around on foot earns it C−. The poverty rate is 3.2%, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. Only 1% work in Shoreacres itself; outside it, Houston draws the most (32%, 25 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Shoreacres, in brief
Shoreacres is a place people come home to
There are 78 jobs based in Shoreacres, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Shoreacres has about 850 people in it, 44% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
One in three of Shoreacres works in Houston
241 working residents, 32%, have their main job in Houston, 25 miles away. That’s 32 times as many as work in Shoreacres itself. The commute map ↓
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 759 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Shoreacres’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Shoreacres is among the top U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Shoreacres’ grade. It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.2%) is left out: Shoreacres’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Shoreacres could be anywhere from A to A+.
Who works in Shoreacres, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 751 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 70 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Shoreacres on a workday afternoon, 44% fewer than live here.
0.10 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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 people from Shoreacres work
Where Shoreacres clocks in
32% of workers
10% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Shoreacres
78 jobs are based in Shoreacres.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shoreacres, 2013 → 2023: 56 → 78. 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 Shoreacres’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Shoreacres: about 27 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shoreacres workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 767 commuters (the 12% 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.
Where in the region Shoreacres works
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.
Few in Shoreacres walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Shoreacres is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Shoreacres near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 869 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.8% of Shoreacres households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Shoreacres’ commuters take a bus or train.
Shoreacres next to U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100: 36th of 5,794 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 28 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Tonka Bay MN | 1,561 | $156K | 3.5% | 9.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 35 | Southside Place TX | 1,916 | $163K | 5.0% | 5.4% | 2% | A+ |
| 36 | Shoreacres TX | 1,535 | $131K | 3.2% | 2.2% | 1% | A+ |
| 37 | Fife Heights WA | 1,446 | $157K | 2.4% | 4.5% | 1% | A+ |
| 38 | Ames Lake WA | 1,245 | $250K | 1.1% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Shoreacres, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
The towns next door employ 10% of Shoreacres
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Shoreacres workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shoreacres | – | A+ | C− | 27 min | $130,815 |
| La Porte | 10% | B | C | 24 min | $80,753 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to La Porte. Darker towns draw more of Shoreacres’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 Shoreacres: questions
What is the median household income in Shoreacres?
$130,815 (±$28,455) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shoreacres?
3.2%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shoreacres?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shoreacres work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (32%, 25 mi), La Porte (10%, 4 mi), Pasadena (9%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Shoreacres walkable?
Shoreacres is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shoreacres without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shoreacres, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shoreacres
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.