Todd Mission draws 140 commuters a day, with 2.8 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Todd Mission itself; outside it, Houston draws the most (22%, 42 miles). There are 140 jobs in Todd Mission, and 50 of its residents work somewhere. The trip to work takes 46 minutes on average (Texas 27, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Todd Mission by day
On a workday 50 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 220 people are in Todd Mission on a workday afternoon, 71% 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.
The towns that send workers to Todd Mission
Where Todd Mission clocks in
22% of workers
8% 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.
Todd Mission makes things: 50% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Todd Mission, 2013 → 2023: 141 → 140. 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 Todd Mission’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 46 minutes in Todd Mission
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Todd Mission workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 36 commuters (the 14% 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.
How far Todd Mission’s workers travel
About 22% 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.
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 Todd Mission: questions
What is the poverty rate in Todd Mission?
5.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Todd Mission?
46 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Todd Mission work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (22%, 42 mi), Magnolia (8%, 6 mi), Prairie View (4%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Todd Mission 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 Todd Mission, from the people who make the trip.
More of Todd Mission
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.