Texas labor-mobility intelligence
Where Texas Works.
See where primary jobs are located, where employed residents live, which ZIPs import or export workers, and how labor movement reshapes the economic meaning of a Texas place.
1,718Canonical ZIP layer
1,985True-ZIP records
179State legislative rows
Search a Texas ZIP. See its workforce role.Enter any Texas ZIP available in the governed workforce-mobility dataset.
Certified backbone scope
A statewide view of jobs, workers, and commuter pressure.
The database supports Texas ZIP intelligence and state legislative labor-mobility analysis while preserving distinct canonical and true-ZIP products.
Governed production data loaded. The publication contains the complete certified Texas workforce-mobility export for this product.
ACS tells us where people live.
Population, households, income, poverty, and resident employment describe the residential economy of place.
LODES tells us where people work and how labor moves.
Workplace jobs, resident workers, same-ZIP job relationships, inbound labor, outbound labor, and commuter balance reveal the daytime employment economy.
Five intelligence families
The Texas questions this backbone was built to answer.
Each family converts raw job-location records into a decision-ready view for communities, economic development, transportation, legislators, businesses, and consumers.
Workforce geography
Where are jobs concentrated? Where do employed residents live? Which communities import or export workers?
Explore workforce questions →Economic gravity
Which ZIPs draw large workforces despite small residential populations? Which function as downtowns, airports, medical districts, or commercial centers?
Open gravity rankings →Transportation demand
Where might inbound-worker dependence create pressure on highways, arterials, transit systems, and infrastructure investments?
See transportation questions →Legislative intelligence
Which Texas House and Senate districts contain major employment centers, supply workers elsewhere, or function as bedroom communities?
Open district intelligence →Consumer economy
Can worker inflow help explain commercial activity that residential population alone cannot? The copied consumer profile creates that analytical bridge.
Review integrated questions →Governed evidence
Every public interpretation is tied to explicit measures, public labels, provenance, scope limits, and a reproducible DuckDB export.
Read the methodology →Featured verified profiles
Residential statistics can miss what a place actually is.
These two examples show why workplace geography changes the interpretation of a Texas ZIP.
Statewide discovery
Employment magnets already identified in the build.
The complete export will rank every loaded Texas ZIP by job concentration, commuter balance, workforce export, self-containment, and inbound dependence.
Six governed ranking lenses
Largest workplace job centers, top net inflows, top workforce exporters, highest job-to-resident-worker ratios, most self-contained ZIP economies, and most commuter-dependent employment centers.
Open the rankings engine →From mobility to commercial gravity
A stronger model of the Texas economy of place.
LODES is the daytime-employment layer. Its greatest value emerges when governed resident, business, movement, hospitality, and consumer evidence is assembled without confusing one measure for another.
Resident economyACS
Daytime economyLODES employment activity
Business economyTXST
Movement economyFuture TxDOT integration
Consumer economyLottery, TABC, and related evidence
Commercial GravityThe combined economic pull of a Texas place.
Legislative accountability
Texas House and Senate labor mobility
Compare employment centers, resident-worker bases, net commuter balances, and job gravity across state legislative geography using unambiguous public labels.
Explore state districtsInterpretation discipline
Daytime employment activity—not daytime population
LODES does not count everyone physically present, foot traffic, spending, vehicles, tourism visitation, or cellphone movement. The website keeps those limits visible everywhere the data is interpreted.
Review limitationsStart with a ZIP. See the economy that residential data cannot show alone.
Search, compare, rank, and interpret Texas workforce geography through the Texas Capital Report and National Data System governed intelligence framework.