Arnold has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Jobs and income earn Arnold B−; getting around on foot earns it B. Arnold has 530 jobs, and 1,724 of its residents work somewhere. Only 7% work in Arnold; the top destination outside it is Sacramento (3%, 64 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Arnold apart on work
A big share show a job far from home
75% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Commutes from Arnold are quick
The average trip to work takes 15 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 107 hours a year less on the road than the typical California worker. Time on the road ↓
Arnold empties out on a workday
About 1,300 people are in Arnold on a workday afternoon, 48% fewer than the 2,500 who live here: 1,600 head out to work and 410 come in. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Arnold than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Arnold fell from 750 in 2013 to 530 in 2023, −29%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Arnold
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Arnold is better than 47% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Arnold’s grade up (4.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Arnold could be anywhere from C− to A−.
How far Arnold goes to work
About 75% 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.
About 15 minutes each way for Arnold’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Arnold workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 807 commuters (the 24% 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.
In and out of Arnold on a workday
On a workday 1,607 residents head out to work, 117 work right here, and 413 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Arnold on a workday afternoon, 48% 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.
What Arnold’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Arnold, 2013 → 2023: 750 → 530. 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 Arnold’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Arnold goes to work
Where Arnold clocks in
3% of workers
3% 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.
Getting around Arnold: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Arnold is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,055 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 1.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 64% 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). 1.3% of Arnold households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Arnold’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Arnold is 2,553rd among 5,401 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 84 | Ross CA | 2,304 | $250K | 4.8% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 116 | Fairbanks Ranch CA | 2,703 | $250K | 5.5% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,551 | Huntington TX | 2,157 | $64K | 12.3% | 2.3% | 5% | B− |
| 2,552 | Lake Township MI | 2,851 | $73K | 6.3% | 3.6% | 5% | B− |
| 2,553 | Arnold CA | 2,482 | $92K | 4.2% | 5.4% | 7% | B− |
| 2,554 | Winnie TX | 3,290 | $81K | 4.4% | 12.8% | 6% | B− |
| 2,555 | Frankton IN | 1,827 | $69K | 9.2% | 3.3% | 6% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,401 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Arnold, 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 Arnold: questions
What is the median household income in Arnold?
$92,467 (±$20,501) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Arnold?
4.2%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Arnold?
15 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Arnold work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (3%, 64 mi), San Jose (3%, 104 mi), San Francisco (3%, 118 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Arnold walkable?
Arnold is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Arnold without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Arnold, from the people who make the trip.
More of Arnold
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.