Major Employers

Lavon is a growing community of 2,500 residents on the eastern edge of the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex. As a small community Lavon has land to grow and opportunities to attract major employers. To date the largest private employer in Lavon is M-Tex Industrial Supply Company being a company that handles pipes, valves and fitting supplies, hardware and handtools. M-Tex employs about 20. 

The Community Independent School District is the largest employer with 223 employees.

Surrounding Lavon, particularly to the west is are major complexes of higher technology, advanced manufacturing and the corporate business parks along the I 90-George Bush Tollway. In the adjoining community of Wylie there are major employers being:

• Sanden International producing Auto A/C Compressors and employing about 885
• North Texas Municipal Water District Water employing approximately 550
• Wal-Mart Retail employing 320
• Extruders Aluminum Extrusion with 250 employees
• Target Retail with 223 employees
• Ascend Custom Extrusion Aluminum Extrusion with 188 employees
• Holland USA Fifth Wheel Mfrs. at 181
• Global Innovation Electric Circuits with 148
• Garnet Hill Rehab & Skilled Nursing Rehab Hospital - 132
• Founder's Plaza Nursing & Rehab - 125
• Home Depot Retail - 120
• Albertson's Retail - 101
• Carlisle Coatings & Waterproofing Pressure Lense Tape - 100
• MAI/Pella Doors - 52
• Savage Precision Fabrication Sheet Metal Fabrication - 47