Senate District 15 — Molly Cook

Childcare, workforce-time and workforce-geography context for legislative review.

83,155

Children under 6 - ZIP-area-weighted estimate

63,270

Working-parent children under 6

43,188

Current authorized capacity

1.46

Childcare Supply Pressure — working-parent children under 6 per current qualifying slot

Who is counted

23.9%

Who the Formula Does Not Count — share of children under 6 outside the working-parent denominator

When care is available

operations overlapping the HHSC nighttime window

7.6%

Nighttime Schedule Coverage — qualifying capacity at operations overlapping HHSC's 9 p.m.-6 a.m. window

14.3%

Early-Shift Workforce — workers leaving before 6 a.m. · ACS B08302

Workforce geography

397,496

Resident primary jobs - LODES

623,968

Workplace primary jobs - LODES

96.0%

Resident-worker outbound share - LODES

LODES does not show childcare drop-offs, actual routes, or commute duration.

Methodology note

District quantities are ZIP-boundary-area-weighted legislative estimates. The ZIP matrix remains the direct geographic evidence layer.

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How this district estimate was constructed

The estimate starts with direct ZIP/ZCTA evidence and the governed 2025 ZIP-to-Texas-legislative-district crosswalk. When a ZIP overlaps more than one district, additive ZIP-level values are multiplied by area_ratio, the share of that ZIP's geographic area inside the district, and then summed. District ratios are recomputed from those allocated components rather than averaging ZIP-level ratios.

Contributing ZIPs

ZIPs with 95%+ of their area in the district

ZIPs with less than 50% of their area in the district

Leading ZIPs	Share of that ZIP's area inside district
77008	100.0%
77006	100.0%
77092	100.0%
77086	100.0%
77401	100.0%
77046	100.0%
77066	100.0%
77014	100.0%

This is geographic allocation, not Census-block assignment, household assignment, population-weighted allocation, or a statistical confidence interval.

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