Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Caruthers has higher household incomes than 66% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 11.6%; California has 12.0%. Jobs and income earn Caruthers B; getting around on foot earns it A. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 5.7 in Fresno.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Caruthers, in brief
Caruthers and Fresno trade workers both ways
Fresno is the top workplace for Caruthers residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Caruthers come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Caruthers are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 69 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; with 850 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Caruthers’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Caruthers is better than 61% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Caruthers’ grade up ($88,021, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down. It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (4.0%) is left out: Caruthers’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, Caruthers could be anywhere from C− to A+.
27% of working residents work in Fresno
Where Caruthers clocks in
27% of workers
3% 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.
The trip to work from Caruthers: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Caruthers workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 586 commuters (the 7% 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 many people are in Caruthers by day
On a workday 780 residents head out to work, 70 work right here, and 450 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Caruthers on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
0.61 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.
What work there is in Caruthers: 520 jobs
520 jobs are based in Caruthers.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Caruthers, 2013 → 2023: 570 → 520. 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 Caruthers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Caruthers
About 21% 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.
Caruthers is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Caruthers is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Caruthers 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 630 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 42% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 42% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 43% 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). 1.7% of Caruthers households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Caruthers’ commuters take a bus or train.
Caruthers is 1,590th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Irwindale CA | 1,439 | $114K | 4.3% | 6.5% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,588 | Union Township PA | 2,074 | $93K | 5.9% | 10.9% | 4% | B |
| 1,589 | Amherst WI | 1,404 | $94K | 6.4% | 1.4% | 3% | B |
| 1,590 | Caruthers CA | 1,683 | $88K | 11.6% | 4.0% | 8% | B |
| 1,591 | Auburn MI | 2,039 | $72K | 6.6% | 4.2% | 2% | B |
| 1,592 | Pleasant Township OH | 1,484 | $77K | 4.1% | 1.5% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Caruthers, 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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Caruthers: questions
What is the median household income in Caruthers?
$88,021 (±$43,022) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Caruthers?
11.6%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Caruthers?
20 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Caruthers work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fresno (27%, 17 mi), Clovis (3%, 22 mi), Visalia (2%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Caruthers walkable?
Caruthers is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.6 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Caruthers without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 42% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Caruthers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Caruthers
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.