Bowles has 10.3 jobs for every working resident: 770 people commute in to work
0% of workers have no commute at all; California has 17%. There are 770 jobs in Bowles, and 75 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Bowles for work; outside it, Fresno is the main destination (36%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bowles by day and by night
On a workday 75 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 790 people are in Bowles on a workday afternoon, 709% more 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 the people who work in Bowles live
Where Bowles clocks in
36% of workers
4% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 82% of the jobs in Bowles
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bowles, 2013 → 2023: 660 → 770. 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 Bowles’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Bowles
of Bowles workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 30 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.
Half of Bowles commutes less than 13 miles
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.
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 Bowles: questions
What is the poverty rate in Bowles?
0.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Bowles work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fresno (36%, 12 mi), Fowler (4%, 4 mi), Clovis (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bowles without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bowles, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bowles
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.