Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Ahwahnee has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Working from home is the commute for 28% of workers; California has 17%. 140 jobs are based in Ahwahnee for 766 working residents. Jobs and income earn Ahwahnee C; getting around on foot earns it B+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Ahwahnee
Ahwahnee and Oakhurst trade workers both ways
Oakhurst is the top workplace for Ahwahnee residents (28%) and also where the most people who work in Ahwahnee come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Ahwahnee is a place people come home to
There are 140 jobs based in Ahwahnee, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Ahwahnee has about 830 people in it, 43% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Ahwahnee are quick
The average trip to work takes 14 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 115 hours a year less on the road than the typical California worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 766 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Ahwahnee’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Ahwahnee is better than 31% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Ahwahnee’s grade up (8.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.9%) is left out: Ahwahnee’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Ahwahnee could be anywhere from D− to B+.
Where Ahwahnee goes to work
Where Ahwahnee clocks in
28% of workers
11% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Ahwahnee by day and by night
On a workday 752 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 126 people come in from elsewhere.
About 830 people are in Ahwahnee on a workday afternoon, 43% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The daily trip from Ahwahnee: about 14 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ahwahnee workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 301 commuters (the 28% who work from home are left out). Across California: 79% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Ahwahnee works in goods: 32% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ahwahnee, 2013 → 2023: 129 → 140. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ahwahnee’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Ahwahnee
About 26% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Ahwahnee, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ahwahnee is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 19.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 420 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 41% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Ahwahnee households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ahwahnee’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,529th of 6,308: where Ahwahnee ranks among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 22 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,527 | West Branch Township KS | 1,011 | $61K | 8.8% | 2.0% | 4% | C |
| 3,528 | Corinth VT | 1,482 | $89K | 12.4% | 0.8% | 5% | C |
| 3,529 | Ahwahnee CA | 1,453 | $77K | 8.9% | 0.9% | 2% | C |
| 3,530 | Columbus Junction IA | 1,772 | $64K | 10.3% | 3.6% | 7% | C |
| 3,531 | Ackley IA | 1,530 | $63K | 7.5% | 2.0% | 16% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Ahwahnee, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Ahwahnee and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ahwahnee workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahwahnee | – | C | B+ | 14 min | $77,391 |
| Nipinnawasee | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Nipinnawasee: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ahwahnee’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Ahwahnee: questions
What is the median household income in Ahwahnee?
$77,391 (±$29,653) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ahwahnee?
8.9%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ahwahnee?
14 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ahwahnee work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oakhurst (28%, 5 mi), Fresno (11%, 40 mi), Yosemite Valley (4%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ahwahnee walkable?
Ahwahnee is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 20% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ahwahnee without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ahwahnee, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ahwahnee
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.