Where do people in Hutto work?

[TexasHorseLady]

I live outside of Jarrell. We were told a couple of years ago, when our population was 1200, that we should expect an additional 5000 people to move into town over the next 5 years. It's happening, with a new subdivision and such, but Jarrell is still Jarrell and isn't a suburb of Austin OR Georgetown. For that matter, Round Rock is still Round Rock and Cedar Park is still Cedar Park and Pflugerville is still Pflugerville. (I've been here long enough to remember when they all were "out of town" to folks in Austin - moved here in 1969.)

[love roses]

That's what I love about our EDC. They have been trying and are trying to make things more business friendly so that more industry comes here and less people have to commute. The small manufacturing firms are at least a start. The mini med center out in RR also has helped to change that for some here. Even though it's RR, it's very close.

[love roses]

Look at shophutto.com It lists many of the business we have around here currently. I found 8 banking/title companies, automotive/body shops, 32 various manufacturing companies/industrial, 5 medical/dental clinics, 2 chiropractor offices, 1 eye doctor/clinic, 1 vet, 11 various service companies, 2 computer services, 3 attorney's offices, 2 tax service companies among several other types of things. I know it's not a huge employment mecca but somebody from around here must work at these places. Oops, forgot to mention we got a Walgreens not too long ago so if you're a pharmacist/pharm tech, there's a local opportunity now. Also look at gainingfromgrowth.com

[HappyTexan]

Well the OP's question was about "big" companies. To me that means the likes of a Dell/IBM or central office of a big company. There's plenty of small businesses around in all cities/towns.

[TexasHorseLady]

Good point. I was looking at the title of the thread rather than the original post. Though they did say "in or around". Since Round Rock is right down the road, it qualifies as "around" Hutto. So does Taylor in the other direction.

[love roses]

"Big" for around here would be some of the constuction or freight companies, Railroad (Southern Pacific), Distributing, Gulf Coast Paper or some of the other manufacturing companies in the 2 industrial parks around here. Dell is the biggest IT company in the area and at one time or other Toyota was being courted but I'm not sure where that stands. Much of the "Big" employment around here isn't tech related. It really takes very little time from here to get to Taylor, GT, or RR or Pflugerville so even if you did work in one of those towns, you'd still have a super short commute.

[love roses]

I found a website (oops, forgot to credit it ). It says a lot about major employers in Williamson County.
Some of the major industries are:Semiconductor manufacturing and support (one of these is in Hutto), insurance, plastics, minerals, transportation equipment, tourism, agriculture.

The companies that invest in Williamson County and contract some work here are: Dell, Cypress Semi Conductor, Motorola, IBM, AMD, TI, and Samsung.

Major employers in....
Georgetown: Southwestern University, Georgetown Health Care Systems, Airborn Inc., Sun City (Del Webb), Weslayan Homes

RR: Dell, RR Med. Center, School District, Tx. Baptist Children's Home

Cedar Park: Lakeline Mall, ACC, ETS Lindgren, MD/TOTCO, Baker Drywall, Coreslab Structures

Taylor: Agribusiness publishing center, Various plants to process cottonseed and meat, furniture suppliers, ERCOT, Carpenter-Morning Glory, Laboratory Tops, Johns Community Hospital, and Temple College.

It goes on to state that Williamson County also still has a profitable agricultural sector and grows many different crops. It also produces Oil, Natural Gas, Sand, Gravel, Dolomite, and Lime Stone and Lime Stone Products.

[verybadgnome]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

Well, first, Hutto was not a "small city", but rather a "small town". (I take it you haven't lived in anything but cities based on your use of the language in that regard.)

It's really rather sad what's happened to Hutto, and is happening to the various small independent communities surrounding Austin. Especially it is sad when the people who move there (or those who don't move there but feel free to pontificate on what they are nonetheless) don't respect them for what they really are but try to make them into just an adjunct to a nearby larger city, just because the world MUST revolve around that city (or, more specifically, them).

No, once again, none of the small towns that have been in existence for a hundred years or more than happen to be around Austin are merely "bedroom communities" for Austin. There are people who live there who work in Austin, true. There are people who live there ("there" being the various communities, not just Hutto) who don't work in Austin, either, and who've lived there for generations.

Where do you live, verybadgnome?

Live in Austin and work and Austin. Never thought for a minute once finding a job downtown of living in another city/suburb/utility district.

The point is the majority of people who live in Hutto work elsewhere hence more people use it as a place to lay their head and the term bedroom community comes in. By you definition a new town would have to be designed from the get-go - as in a master planned community - to be labeled a bedroom community but that is not how it works in the planning community. We will look at a given geographic area and find the ratio of jobs to residents in which a very low ratio will tell us that an area is dependent on outside areas for jobs. We don't care that such and such a town was founded in 1869 and Teddy Roosevelt once slept in the local hotel. What counts is the burden on the transportation infrastructure and in Hutto's case all of the roads leading into Austin and RR would be the ones we'd scrutinize the most.

If you want to expand this to Hutto and surrounding they you could probably make just about any label fit but that wasn't what people were taking about after the OP.