Winters-Wimberley House · Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 3.0Wimberley has higher unemployment (12.3%) than 97% of U.S. towns
The trip to work takes 26 minutes on average (Texas 27, U.S. 26). Jobs and income earn Wimberley C+; getting around on foot earns it C+. About one in ten work in Wimberley itself; outside it, Austin draws the most (27%, 30 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Wimberley and work: the main findings
Wimberley’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Wimberley is Austin, 30 miles away as the crow flies. 27% of working residents (293) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Wimberley
65% of Wimberley residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 38% of the jobs based in Wimberley pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 91% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Wimberley is where the jobs are
Wimberley has 1,857 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
38% of the jobs based in Wimberley are held by workers 29 or younger, against 19% of Wimberley’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Wimberley has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Wimberley went from 1,211 in 2013 to 1,857 in 2023, +53%. 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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Wimberley
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Wimberley is better than 40% of U.S. towns, #346 of 642 in Texas. The poverty rate holds Wimberley’s grade up (6.9%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Wimberley could be anywhere from C− to A.
How far Wimberley’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.
Jobs in Wimberley: what the 1,857 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wimberley, 2013 → 2023: 1,211 → 1,857. 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 Wimberley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Wimberley: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 993 residents head out to work, 98 work right here, and 1,759 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,700 people are in Wimberley on a workday afternoon, 26% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Who travels to work in Wimberley, and from where
Where Wimberley clocks in
27% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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 long Wimberley spends getting to work: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wimberley workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 981 commuters (the 18% 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.
Driving is how Wimberley gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wimberley is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns, #395 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place Wimberley 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 1,201 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). 0.8% of Wimberley households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wimberley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wimberley next to U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900: 2,818th of 4,882 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Talty TX | 3,299 | $155K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,816 | Hastings Township MI | 3,091 | $79K | 10.1% | 5.6% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,817 | Cedar Creek Township MI | 3,365 | $74K | 9.2% | 5.1% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,818 | Wimberley TX | 2,909 | $80K | 6.9% | 12.3% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,819 | Kalaeloa HI | 3,342 | $90K | 22.0% | 6.9% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,820 | Cape May NJ | 2,716 | $63K | 10.3% | 3.4% | 22% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Wimberley, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
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 Wimberley: questions
What is the median household income in Wimberley?
$80,362 (±$31,678) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wimberley?
6.9%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wimberley?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wimberley work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Austin (27%, 30 mi), San Marcos (7%, 12 mi), San Antonio (5%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wimberley walkable?
Wimberley is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wimberley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wimberley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wimberley
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.