Vanderbilt draws 357 commuters a day, with 2.6 jobs for every working resident
There are 366 jobs in Vanderbilt, and 143 of its residents work somewhere. Only 6% work in Vanderbilt; the top destination outside it is Edna (19%, 11 miles). For 0% of workers, the job is at home; Texas has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Vanderbilt: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 134 residents head out to work and 9 work right here.
About 660 people are in Vanderbilt on a workday afternoon, 51% 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.
Where Vanderbilt’s workforce comes from
Where Vanderbilt clocks in
19% of workers
9% of workers
9% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Vanderbilt
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vanderbilt, 2013 → 2023: 326 → 366. 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 Vanderbilt’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 34 minutes to work from Vanderbilt
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vanderbilt workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 157 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.
The commute from Vanderbilt, by distance
About 43% 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 Vanderbilt: questions
What is the poverty rate in Vanderbilt?
0.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vanderbilt?
34 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vanderbilt work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Edna (19%, 11 mi), Victoria (9%, 23 mi), Houston (9%, 99 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Vanderbilt without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vanderbilt, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vanderbilt
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.