Photo: Stedil · CC BY-SA 4.0Splendora draws 1,414 commuters a day, with 1.7 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Splendora report 1,450 jobs, against 832 working residents. For jobs and income Splendora is better than 73% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (C−). Only 4% stay in Splendora for work; outside it, Houston is the main destination (35%, 34 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Splendora stands out on work
Jobs in Splendora have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Splendora went from 459 in 2013 to 1,450 in 2023, +216%. The jobs ↓
Splendora is where the jobs are
Splendora has 1,450 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
The biggest group of Splendora’s workers comes from Houston
130 of the people who work in Splendora live in Houston, 34 miles away, more than from any other town. 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 832 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The four measures behind Splendora’s grade
Unemployment holds Splendora’s grade up (1.9%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.5%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Splendora could be anywhere from C+ to A.
What Splendora’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Splendora, 2013 → 2023: 459 → 1,450. 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 Splendora’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Splendora
On a workday 796 residents head out to work and 36 work right here.
About 2,800 people are in Splendora on a workday afternoon, 29% more 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.
Commuting in to Splendora: where workers come from
Where Splendora clocks in
35% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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.
A commute of about 35 minutes in Splendora
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Splendora workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 889 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Splendora
About 18% 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.
Few in Splendora walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 986 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). 1.0% of Splendora households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Splendora’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Splendora ranks: 1,039th of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Southside Place TX | 1,916 | $163K | 5.0% | 5.4% | 2% | A+ |
| 24 | Shoreacres TX | 1,535 | $131K | 3.2% | 2.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,037 | West Fork AR | 2,373 | $78K | 3.1% | 3.5% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,038 | Itasca TX | 1,970 | $77K | 6.8% | 1.1% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,039 | Splendora TX | 2,146 | $85K | 13.5% | 1.9% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,040 | Fredonia WI | 2,252 | $99K | 9.7% | 3.5% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,041 | Fobes Hill WA | 2,569 | $134K | 6.9% | 5.7% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Splendora, 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 Splendora: questions
What is the median household income in Splendora?
$85,461 (±$30,645) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Splendora?
13.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Splendora?
35 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Splendora work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (35%, 34 mi), Conroe (4%, 21 mi), Cleveland (3%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Splendora walkable?
Splendora is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Splendora without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Splendora, from the people who make the trip.
More of Splendora
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.