Fresno draws more than half of Calwa’s working residents
Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, next to 17% for California as a whole. Calwa grades B for jobs and income and A+ for walkability. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 4.2 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 5.7 in Fresno.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Calwa: the figures worth knowing
Most Calwa residents work close to home
65% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Few Calwa workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 17% across California. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 553 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Calwa gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Calwa is better than 59% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Calwa’s grade up (ahead of 85% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($65,247, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (17.6%) is left out: Calwa’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Calwa could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Where Calwa goes to work
Where Calwa clocks in
52% of workers
6% of workers
1% 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.
Half of Calwa commutes less than 7 miles
About 19% 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.
The daily trip from Calwa: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Calwa workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 688 commuters (the 3% 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 daily commute in and out of Calwa
On a workday 545 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 614 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.12 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Goods jobs make up 33% of work in Calwa
622 jobs are based in Calwa.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Calwa, 2013 → 2023: 728 → 622. 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 Calwa’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Good to walk, short on transit: Calwa
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Calwa is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Calwa 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 707 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, 100% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 81% 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). 2.0% of Calwa households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Calwa’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Calwa is 1,712th of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Irwindale CA | 1,439 | $114K | 4.3% | 6.5% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 74 | Del Rio CA | 1,508 | $250K | 0.0% | 2.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,710 | Pleasant Township PA | 2,164 | $76K | 6.8% | 2.1% | 2% | B |
| 1,711 | Platteville WI | 1,554 | $82K | 6.4% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,712 | Calwa CA | 1,862 | $65K | 10.2% | 17.6% | 1% | B |
| 1,713 | Penngrove CA | 2,119 | $107K | 8.2% | 7.2% | 1% | B |
| 1,714 | Ogden Township KS | 2,064 | $84K | 4.2% | 5.2% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Calwa, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Next door is work for 52% of Calwa
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Fresno. Darker towns draw more of Calwa’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 Calwa: questions
What is the median household income in Calwa?
$65,247 (±$15,620) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Calwa?
10.2%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Calwa?
26 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Calwa work?
1% work in town.
Is Calwa walkable?
Calwa is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 15.3 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Calwa without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 100% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Calwa, from the people who make the trip.
More of Calwa
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.