Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Tehuacana has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Employers in Tehuacana report 1 jobs, and 87 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Tehuacana for work; outside it, Mexia is the main destination (21%, 6 miles). 3% of workers work from home (Texas 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Tehuacana on a workday afternoon
On a workday 87 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Tehuacana on a workday afternoon, 37% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Tehuacana work
Where Tehuacana clocks in
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.
In Tehuacana, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tehuacana, 2014 → 2024: 17 → 1. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Tehuacana’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Tehuacana spends getting to work: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tehuacana workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 181 commuters (the 3% 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.
Half of Tehuacana commutes less than 48 miles
About 49% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Tehuacana: questions
What is the median household income in Tehuacana?
$75,469 (±$21,670) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tehuacana?
17.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tehuacana?
20 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tehuacana work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mexia (21%, 6 mi), Wortham (3%, 6 mi), Groesbeck (3%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Tehuacana 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 Tehuacana, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tehuacana
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.