Bear Valley Springs has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Measured by household income, Bear Valley Springs is ahead of 88% of U.S. towns. Bear Valley Springs has 398 jobs for 1,771 working residents. Jobs and income earn Bear Valley Springs B; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Bear Valley Springs
Bear Valley Springs workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 42 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 322 hours of commuting, 100 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Bear Valley Springs
66% of Bear Valley Springs residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 34% of the jobs based in Bear Valley Springs pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 93% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Bear Valley Springs is a place people come home to
There are 398 jobs based in Bear Valley Springs, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Bear Valley Springs’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Bear Valley Springs is Bakersfield, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (256) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% 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 ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Where Bear Valley Springs’ Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bear Valley Springs is better than 65% of U.S. towns, #355 of 847 in California. Household income holds Bear Valley Springs’ grade up ($120,481, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bear Valley Springs could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Each way, about 42 minutes from Bear Valley Springs
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bear Valley Springs workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,702 commuters (the 20% 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 kinds of work in Bear Valley Springs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bear Valley Springs, 2014 → 2024: 249 → 398. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bear Valley Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Bear Valley Springs by day and by night
On a workday 1,654 residents head out to work, 117 work right here, and 281 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,500 people are in Bear Valley Springs on a workday afternoon, 23% 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 2024, primary jobs.
How far Bear Valley Springs’ workers travel
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
14% of working residents work in Bakersfield
Where Bear Valley Springs clocks in
14% of workers
14% of workers
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.
Bear Valley Springs is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bear Valley Springs is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns, #816 of 847 in California. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,117 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). 2.6% of Bear Valley Springs households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bear Valley Springs’ commuters take a bus or train.
Bear Valley Springs is 1,376th of 3,494 U.S. towns of 4,100 to 8,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 68 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,374 | Oakland ME | 6,361 | $78K | 8.1% | 1.7% | 14% | B |
| 1,375 | Palmyra NY | 7,319 | $67K | 8.1% | 2.2% | 9% | B |
| 1,376 | Bear Valley Springs CA | 5,912 | $120K | 4.6% | 3.4% | 7% | B |
| 1,377 | Buckhead GA | 4,702 | $145K | 0.6% | 7.5% | 2% | B |
| 1,378 | Gentry AR | 4,899 | $70K | 9.1% | 1.6% | 18% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,494 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 3% | 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 Bear Valley Springs, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Work next door: 14% of Bear Valley Springs’ workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bear Valley Springs workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Valley Springs | – | B | C− | 42 min | $120,481 |
| Keene | under 2% | — | — | 57 min | — |
| Tehachapi | 14% | C− | C+ | 27 min | $72,957 |
Same-state neighbors only. Keene: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Tehachapi. Darker towns draw more of Bear Valley Springs’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Valley Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Bear Valley Springs?
$120,481 (±$18,669) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bear Valley Springs?
4.6%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bear Valley Springs?
42 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bear Valley Springs work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bakersfield (14%, 24 mi), Tehachapi (14%, 13 mi), Lancaster (5%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Bear Valley Springs walkable?
Bear Valley Springs is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bear Valley Springs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bear Valley Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bear Valley Springs
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.