Household incomes put Bell Canyon near the very top of U.S. towns
Bell Canyon grades B for jobs and income and D for walkability. Measured by household income, Bell Canyon is among the highest-earning towns in the country. Below the poverty line: 0.7% of residents, next to 12.0% for California as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Bell Canyon apart
Bell Canyon and Los Angeles trade workers both ways
Los Angeles is the top workplace for Bell Canyon residents (40%) and also where the most people who work in Bell Canyon come from (38% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Bell Canyon is a place people come home to
There are 133 jobs based in Bell Canyon, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Bell Canyon workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 39 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 299 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 665 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Bell Canyon
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bell Canyon is better than 61% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Bell Canyon’s grade up ($250,000+, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (8.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate.
The Census reports Bell Canyon’s median household income as $250,000+, the top of its scale; the grade ranks it as tied with the 111 other graded places at that ceiling.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bell Canyon could be anywhere from B to A.
40% of working residents work in Los Angeles
Where Bell Canyon clocks in
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.
In and out of Bell Canyon on a workday
On a workday 647 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 115 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Bell Canyon on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.20 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting from Bell Canyon: about 39 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bell Canyon workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 685 commuters (the 28% 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 Bell Canyon
133 jobs are based in Bell Canyon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bell Canyon, 2013 → 2023: 179 → 133. 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 Bell Canyon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Bell Canyon
About 20% 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.
Bell Canyon is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bell Canyon is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Bell Canyon near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 946 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 Bell Canyon households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bell Canyon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bell Canyon is 1,636th of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Del Rio CA | 1,508 | $250K | 0.0% | 2.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,634 | Gilpin Township PA | 2,333 | $73K | 7.4% | 2.2% | 5% | B |
| 1,635 | Stanton TX | 2,694 | $93K | 5.0% | 6.0% | 11% | B |
| 1,636 | Bell Canyon CA | 2,177 | $250K | 0.7% | 8.7% | 3% | B |
| 1,637 | Shamokin Dam PA | 1,623 | $69K | 5.6% | 1.5% | 3% | B |
| 1,638 | Kenova WV | 2,841 | $54K | 9.0% | 0.0% | 9% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | 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 Bell Canyon, 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.
- A ceiling on income. The Census stops at $250,000+, so the true median may be higher.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bell Canyon: questions
What is the median household income in Bell Canyon?
$250,000+ (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bell Canyon?
0.7%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bell Canyon?
39 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bell Canyon work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Los Angeles (40%, 20 mi), Thousand Oaks (5%, 11 mi), Calabasas (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bell Canyon walkable?
Bell Canyon is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bell Canyon 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 Bell Canyon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bell Canyon
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.