For more than half of its working residents, Somerset is a commute to San Antonio
Home is the office for 4% of workers, against 14% across Texas. The two grades for Somerset are B− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 4% stay in Somerset for work; outside it, San Antonio is the main destination (56%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Somerset, in brief
More than half of Somerset works in San Antonio
411 working residents, 56%, have their main job in San Antonio, 18 miles away. That’s 14 times as many as work in Somerset itself. The commute map ↓
Few Somerset workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Somerset workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 735 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Somerset
On income, poverty and job access, Somerset is better than 55% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Somerset’s grade up (ahead of 84% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.2%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (6.0%) is left out: Somerset’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Somerset could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Where the trip to work from Somerset ends
Where Somerset clocks in
56% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
Commuting from Somerset: about 32 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Somerset workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 692 commuters (the 4% 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.
Who leaves Somerset for work, and who comes in
On a workday 702 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 784 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.11 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.
In Somerset, services account for most jobs
817 jobs are based in Somerset.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Somerset, 2013 → 2023: 734 → 817. 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 Somerset’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Somerset
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.
Driving is how Somerset gets around
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 719 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). 2.5% of Somerset households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Somerset’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500, Somerset comes 1,962nd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 25 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,960 | Farmington Township PA | 1,730 | $87K | 4.0% | 0.5% | 15% | B− |
| 1,961 | Tano Road NM | 1,586 | $183K | 9.8% | 6.4% | 5% | B− |
| 1,962 | Somerset TX | 1,872 | $78K | 17.2% | 6.0% | 4% | B− |
| 1,963 | Napavine WA | 2,153 | $104K | 6.0% | 5.1% | 2% | B− |
| 1,964 | Saratoga WY | 1,766 | $85K | 2.9% | 0.0% | 50% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | 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 Somerset, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
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 Somerset: questions
What is the median household income in Somerset?
$77,917 (±$7,515) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Somerset?
17.2%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Somerset?
32 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Somerset work?
4% work in town.
Is Somerset walkable?
Somerset is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Somerset without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Somerset, from the people who make the trip.
More of Somerset
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.