With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Bucks Lake works elsewhere
Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 17% across California. Bucks Lake has 1 jobs, and 8 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Bucks Lake for work; outside it, Palo Alto is the main destination (13%, 179 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Bucks Lake
On a workday 8 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 13 people are in Bucks Lake on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Commuting out of Bucks Lake: the destinations
Where Bucks Lake clocks in
13% of workers
13% of workers
13% 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 Bucks Lake, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bucks Lake, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 1. 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 Bucks Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Bucks Lake
of Bucks Lake workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 20 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.
The commute from Bucks Lake, by distance
About 50% 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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Bucks Lake workers work outside California. The job records count 25% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bucks Lake: questions
What is the poverty rate in Bucks Lake?
0.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Bucks Lake work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Palo Alto (13%, 179 mi), Visalia (13%, 266 mi), Chico (13%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bucks Lake 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 Bucks Lake, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bucks Lake
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.