State Highway 3 Bridge at the Nueces River · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ M.D. · CC BY-SA 4.0Uvalde Estates has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Texas as a whole has 14%. Uvalde Estates has 42 jobs; 716 of its residents have a job. Getting around Uvalde Estates on foot earns D−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Uvalde Estates: the figures worth knowing
Uvalde Estates is a place people come home to
There are 42 jobs based in Uvalde Estates, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Uvalde Estates has about 1,200 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Uvalde Estates and Uvalde trade workers both ways
Uvalde is the top workplace for Uvalde Estates residents (29%) and also where the most people who work in Uvalde Estates come from (40% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
48% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 716 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The daily flow of workers through Uvalde Estates
On a workday 713 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 39 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Uvalde Estates on a workday afternoon, 35% 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 2023, primary jobs.
29% of working residents work in Uvalde
Where Uvalde Estates clocks in
29% of workers
16% 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.
How far Uvalde Estates goes to work
About 48% 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.
Goods jobs make up 79% of work in Uvalde Estates
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Uvalde Estates, 2013 → 2023: 81 → 42. 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 Uvalde Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 12 minutes each way, quicker than most of Texas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Uvalde Estates workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 707 commuters (the 0% 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.
Most of Uvalde Estates commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Uvalde Estates is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Uvalde Estates 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 707 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). 19.1% of Uvalde Estates households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Uvalde Estates’ commuters take a bus or train.
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 Uvalde Estates: questions
What is the poverty rate in Uvalde Estates?
17.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Uvalde Estates?
12 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Uvalde Estates work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Uvalde (29%, 5 mi), San Antonio (16%, 81 mi), Laredo (3%, 113 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Uvalde Estates walkable?
Uvalde Estates is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 2.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Uvalde Estates without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 19% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Uvalde Estates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Uvalde Estates
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.