Maxwell Creek Bridge on Hardin Road · Photo: Sanfranman59 · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Angwin have higher incomes than those in 87% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 10.3% of residents (California 12.0%). The two grades for Angwin are C+ for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Only 6% work in Angwin; the top destination outside it is Deer Park (12%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Angwin, in brief
Angwin makes and builds things
67% of the jobs based in Angwin are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Angwin residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 25%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Angwin are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical California worker. Time on the road ↓
Most jobs in Angwin pay over $40,000 a year
80% of the jobs based in Angwin pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
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 976 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Angwin’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Angwin is better than 41% of U.S. towns, #572 of 847 in California. Household income holds Angwin’s grade up ($117,500, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (7.5%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Angwin could be anywhere from C− to A−.
A place that makes things: 67% of Angwin’s jobs are in goods
1,067 jobs are based in Angwin.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Angwin, 2013 → 2023: 931 → 1,067. 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 Angwin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Angwin: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Angwin workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,309 commuters (the 15% 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.
Who works in Angwin, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 916 residents head out to work, 60 work right here, and 1,007 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.09 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Angwin ends
Where Angwin clocks in
6% 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.
The commute from Angwin, by distance
About 35% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Angwin
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Angwin is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns, #429 of 847 in California. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 15.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 6.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,546 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 20% 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 Angwin households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Angwin’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,648th of 4,618: where Angwin ranks among U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Del Mar CA | 3,858 | $199K | 2.7% | 1.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 90 | Ross CA | 2,304 | $250K | 4.8% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,646 | St. Joseph Township OH | 2,633 | $50K | 12.1% | 2.2% | 18% | C+ |
| 2,647 | Bradley WI | 2,425 | $76K | 6.3% | 1.6% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,648 | Angwin CA | 2,931 | $118K | 10.3% | 7.5% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,649 | Seminole Manor FL | 2,678 | $66K | 10.4% | 10.4% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,650 | Plainwell MI | 3,722 | $67K | 10.4% | 6.7% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,618 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Angwin, the top three, the last and three more from California.
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 Angwin: questions
What is the median household income in Angwin?
$117,500 (±$30,983) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Angwin?
10.3%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Angwin?
17 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Angwin work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Deer Park (12%, 3 mi), St. Helena (10%, 5 mi), Napa (6%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Angwin walkable?
Angwin is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 15% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Angwin without a car?
1% 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 Angwin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Angwin
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.