Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Westover Hills works elsewhere
Westover Hills has 93 jobs, and 269 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Westover Hills; the top destination outside it is Fort Worth (40%, 4 miles). Home is the office for 22% of workers; Texas has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Westover Hills: the figures worth knowing
Westover Hills and Fort Worth trade workers both ways
Fort Worth is the top workplace for Westover Hills residents (40%) and also where the most people who work in Westover Hills come from (39% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Westover Hills are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
A lot of Westover Hills works from home
22% of Westover Hills workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 269 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The places Westover Hills commutes to
Where Westover Hills clocks in
40% of workers
8% 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.
Each way, about 19 minutes from Westover Hills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Westover Hills workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 212 commuters (the 21% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Westover Hills
On a workday 268 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 92 people come in from elsewhere.
About 470 people are in Westover Hills on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
In Westover Hills, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Westover Hills, 2014 → 2024: 224 → 93. 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 Westover Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Westover Hills
About 17% 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.
- A ceiling on income. The Census stops at $250,000+, so the true median may be higher.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Westover Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Westover Hills?
$250,000+ (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Westover Hills?
6.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Westover Hills?
19 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Westover Hills work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Worth (40%, 4 mi), Dallas (9%, 38 mi), Arlington (8%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Westover Hills 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 Westover Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Westover Hills
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.