Photo: Shayan (USA) from San Jose, CA, USA · CC BY 2.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Bear Valley works elsewhere
Only 2% work in Bear Valley itself; outside it, South Lake Tahoe draws the most (8%, 32 miles). Employers in Bear Valley report 32 jobs, and 96 of its residents work somewhere. 13% of workers work from home, where California as a whole has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Bear Valley, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 94 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 30 people come in from elsewhere.
About 56 people are in Bear Valley on a workday afternoon, 53% 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.
The places Bear Valley commutes to
Where Bear Valley clocks in
8% 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.
The kinds of work in Bear Valley
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bear Valley, 2013 → 2023: 46 → 32. 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 Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Bear Valley
of Bear Valley workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 66 commuters (the 13% 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.
Half of Bear Valley commutes less than 73 miles
About 64% 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 Valley: questions
What is the poverty rate in Bear Valley?
0.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Bear Valley work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are South Lake Tahoe (8%, 32 mi), Carson City (5%, 50 mi), Sacramento (4%, 77 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bear Valley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 24% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bear Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bear Valley
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.