Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Venus has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Venus grades A for jobs and income and D for walkability. 1,056 jobs are based in Venus; 2,169 of its residents have a job. Household incomes here are higher than in 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Venus in brief
Jobs in Venus have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Venus went from 487 in 2013 to 1,056 in 2023, +117%. The jobs ↓
Venus’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Venus is Dallas, 33 miles away as the crow flies. 11% of working residents (247) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Venus workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Nearly all the work in Venus is services
87% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 4% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Income, poverty and work: Venus’ grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Venus is better than 85% of U.S. towns, #124 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 89% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (9.5%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Venus could be anywhere from B− to A+.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Venus
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Venus, 2013 → 2023: 487 → 1,056. 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 Venus’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Venus’ commute, mile by mile
About 16% 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.
How long Venus spends getting to work: about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Venus workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,798 commuters (the 7% 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.
Who works in Venus, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 2,101 residents head out to work, 68 work right here, and 988 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,800 people are in Venus on a workday afternoon, 13% 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.
11% of working residents work in Dallas
Where Venus clocks in
11% 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.
Driving is how Venus gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Venus is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns, #601 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place Venus 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 3,019 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). 0.0% of Venus households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Venus’ commuters take a bus or train.
637th of 2,907: where Venus ranks among U.S. towns of 6,200 to 12,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 3 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
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| 13 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
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| 26 | Alamo Heights TX | 7,632 | $183K | 2.5% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
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| 37 | Oak Point TX | 6,909 | $126K | 1.5% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
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| 635 | Green Brook Township NJ | 7,410 | $208K | 6.0% | 5.7% | 5% | A |
| 636 | Chartiers Township PA | 9,302 | $100K | 4.4% | 3.5% | 7% | A |
| 637 | Venus TX | 8,870 | $106K | 9.5% | 2.7% | 3% | A |
| 638 | Bridgeport WV | 9,427 | $100K | 3.9% | 2.3% | 28% | A |
| 639 | Highgrove CA | 8,366 | $114K | 8.5% | 3.4% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,907 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Venus, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Next door to Venus
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Venus’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Venus: questions
What is the median household income in Venus?
$106,023 (±$22,045) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Venus?
9.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Venus?
33 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Venus work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dallas (11%, 33 mi), Fort Worth (11%, 30 mi), Arlington (9%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Venus walkable?
Venus is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Venus 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 Venus, from the people who make the trip.
More of Venus
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.