Bear Creek has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
0% of workers have no commute at all, where California as a whole has 17%. 8 jobs are based in Bear Creek, and 123 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Bear Creek; the top destination outside it is Merced (29%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Bear Creek
On a workday 123 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.
About 230 people are in Bear Creek on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
Where people from Bear Creek work
Where Bear Creek clocks in
29% of workers
5% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Bear Creek
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bear Creek, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 8. 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 Bear Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 14 minutes from Bear Creek
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bear Creek workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 121 commuters (the 0% 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.
How many miles Bear Creek commutes
About 36% 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.
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 Bear Creek: questions
What is the median household income in Bear Creek?
$153,088 (±$111,091) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bear Creek?
0.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bear Creek?
14 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bear Creek work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Merced (29%, 3 mi), Tracy (5%, 64 mi), San Jose (4%, 77 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bear Creek without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 20% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bear Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bear Creek
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.