About half of Benton Park’s working residents commute to Bakersfield
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 9.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 3.9 in Bakersfield. For jobs and income Benton Park is better than 20% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (A). Measured by household income, Benton Park is behind 88% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Benton Park
Benton Park is a place people come home to
There are 281 jobs based in Benton Park, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Benton Park has about 4,200 people in it, 26% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Benton Park workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 17% across California. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Most Benton Park residents work close to home
63% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Commutes from Benton Park are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical California 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.
How Benton Park earns its Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Benton Park’s grade up (ahead of 81% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (37.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Benton Park could be anywhere from D to B−.
The towns that employ Benton Park’s residents
Where Benton Park clocks in
47% of workers
2% 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.
Who leaves Benton Park for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,778 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 269 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,200 people are in Benton Park on a workday afternoon, 26% fewer than live here.
0.16 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.
The trip to work from Benton Park: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Benton Park workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,973 commuters (the 4% 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 far it is to work from Benton Park
About 29% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Benton Park
281 jobs are based in Benton Park.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Benton Park, 2013 → 2023: 270 → 281. 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 Benton Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Benton Park is easy on foot, hard by bus
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.7% of 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 2,061 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 17% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 9.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 93% 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). 7.7% of Benton Park households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Benton Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
Benton Park is 2,892nd of 3,476 U.S. towns of 4,000 to 7,700 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 118 | La Habra Heights CA | 5,327 | $180K | 4.9% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,890 | Mount Pleasant UT | 4,018 | $69K | 19.7% | 4.0% | 22% | C− |
| 2,891 | Delhi NY | 5,545 | $63K | 13.4% | 4.9% | 32% | C− |
| 2,892 | Benton Park CA | 5,707 | $50K | 37.0% | 6.7% | 1% | C− |
| 2,893 | Eastman GA | 5,572 | $52K | 15.3% | 4.0% | 32% | C− |
| 2,894 | Humboldt IA | 4,675 | $75K | 15.9% | 7.8% | 35% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,476 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Benton Park, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Benton Park and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Benton Park workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benton Park | – | C− | A | 23 min | $49,717 |
| Old Stine | under 1% | C− | B | 21 min | $54,292 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Benton Park’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 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 Benton Park: questions
What is the median household income in Benton Park?
$49,717 (±$23,950) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Benton Park?
37.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Benton Park?
23 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Benton Park work?
1% work in town.
Is Benton Park walkable?
Benton Park is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 12.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Benton Park without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 17% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Benton Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Benton Park
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.