Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Arbuckle has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
4% of workers work from home (California 17%). Arbuckle has 500 jobs, against 1,048 working residents. For jobs and income Arbuckle is better than 64% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (C).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Arbuckle: the figures worth knowing
Commutes from Arbuckle are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical California worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Arbuckle workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 17% across California. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
Jobs & income in Arbuckle: the grade in detail
The poverty rate holds Arbuckle’s grade up (3.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Arbuckle could be anywhere from C to A−.
About 21 minutes each way, quicker than most of California
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Arbuckle workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,464 commuters (the 4% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Arbuckle
On a workday 932 residents head out to work, 116 work right here, and 384 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Arbuckle on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
7% of working residents work in Woodland
Where Arbuckle clocks in
5% 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 kinds of work in Arbuckle
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Arbuckle, 2013 → 2023: 482 → 500. 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 Arbuckle’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Arbuckle
About 25% 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 Arbuckle, work means a drive
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 7.1% across California.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,520 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Arbuckle households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Arbuckle’s commuters take a bus or train.
Arbuckle next to U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,200: 1,480th of 4,562 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 91 | Ross CA | 2,304 | $250K | 4.8% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,478 | Carter Township IN | 3,236 | $75K | 7.9% | 1.3% | 19% | B |
| 1,479 | Union Township IN | 2,725 | $78K | 9.7% | 3.1% | 11% | B |
| 1,480 | Arbuckle CA | 3,093 | $87K | 3.4% | 2.8% | 11% | B |
| 1,481 | Morton PA | 2,768 | $62K | 6.4% | 4.7% | 4% | B |
| 1,482 | Matamoras PA | 2,448 | $77K | 4.8% | 3.2% | 7% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,562 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Arbuckle, 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 Arbuckle: questions
What is the median household income in Arbuckle?
$86,942 (±$6,569) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Arbuckle?
3.4%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Arbuckle?
21 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Arbuckle work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Woodland (7%, 29 mi), Colusa (6%, 13 mi), Sacramento (5%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Arbuckle walkable?
Arbuckle is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Arbuckle without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Arbuckle, from the people who make the trip.
More of Arbuckle
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.