Beale AFB has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
6% of workers work from home (California 17%). Beale AFB has 20 jobs for 209 working residents. For jobs and income Beale AFB is better than 51% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Beale AFB stands out on work
A big share show a job far from home
61% 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 ↓
Beale AFB is a place people come home to
There are 20 jobs based in Beale AFB, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Beale AFB’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Beale AFB is Sacramento, 38 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (16) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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 209 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Beale AFB’s Jobs & income grade comes from
The poverty rate holds Beale AFB’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (9.0%) is left out: Beale AFB’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Beale AFB could be anywhere from C+ to B.
Short hops and long hauls from Beale AFB
About 61% 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.
Who works in Beale AFB, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 208 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Beale AFB on a workday afternoon, 14% 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.
8% of working residents work in Sacramento
Where Beale AFB clocks in
8% 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.
Making and building: 70% of jobs based in Beale AFB
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beale AFB, 2013 → 2023: 64 → 20. 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 Beale AFB’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Beale AFB takes about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beale AFB workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 595 commuters (the 6% 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.
Few in Beale AFB walk, bike or ride to work
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 636 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 Beale AFB households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Beale AFB’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Beale AFB ranks: 1,789th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 19 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,787 | Ashland IL | 1,162 | $68K | 4.9% | 2.2% | 6% | B− |
| 1,788 | Cedar Flat CA | 1,089 | $99K | 6.0% | 5.7% | 3% | B− |
| 1,789 | Beale AFB CA | 1,344 | $70K | 0.0% | 9.0% | <1% | B− |
| 1,790 | Aristocrat Ranchettes CO | 1,747 | $84K | 16.1% | 11.9% | <1% | B− |
| 1,791 | Woodburn IN | 1,628 | $66K | 8.7% | 4.1% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Beale AFB, 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 Beale AFB: questions
What is the median household income in Beale AFB?
$70,061 (±$18,008) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beale AFB?
0.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beale AFB?
19 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beale AFB work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (8%, 38 mi), San Francisco (6%, 109 mi), Chico (3%, 51 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Beale AFB walkable?
Beale AFB is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Beale AFB 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 Beale AFB, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beale AFB
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.