Editing Bacliff, Texas (section)

== Economy ==
Bacliff, like [[San Leon, Texas|San Leon]], and [[Bayview, Galveston County, Texas|Bayview]], originated as a fishing community. In 2012 T.J. Aulds of the ''[[Galveston County Daily News]]'' stated that much of the area's economic influence moved to the corridor along [[Texas State Highway 146]], and that the economy adjusted with the growth of retail food service outlets and bars.<ref name=Auldsfishing/> Like San Leon and Bayview, many residents in Bacliff commute to work in [[Houston]].<ref>Kearney, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=xcFR-BgMomcC&dq=bacliff&pg=PA224 224] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105152129/http://books.google.com/books?id=xcFR-BgMomcC&pg=PA224&dq=bacliff&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DNiPUbm0IIS89QTgooG4Dg&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAjge#v=onepage&q=bacliff&f=false |date=2014-11-05 }}. "Many Houstonians buy property in Bayview, Bacliff, and San Leon, and commute to work in Houston."</ref>

Bacliff CDP had 3,147 employed civilians as of the 2000 Census, including 1,360 females. Of the civilian workers, 2,435 (77.4%) were private for profit wage and salary workers. Of them 56 (1.8% of the total Bacliff CDP civilian workforce) were employees of their own corporations, 82 (2.6%) were private non-profit wage and salary workers, 151 (4.8%) worked for local governments, 144 (4.6%) were state government workers, 53 (1.7%) were federal workers, 268 (9.3%) were self-employed, and 14 of them (less than 1% of the total Bacliff CDP workforce) worked in agriculture, forestry, fishing, or hunting. 14 (Less than 1%) were unpaid family workers.<ref>"[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=16000US4805180&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U_QTP25&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U&-redoLog=false Class of Worker by Sex, Place of Work, and Veteran Status: 2000 - Bacliff, Texas] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200210215505/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=16000US4805180&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U_QTP25&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U&-redoLog=false |date=2020-02-10 }}." ''[[US Census Bureau]]''. Retrieved on December 12, 2008.</ref>