Photo: Cary Bass · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Chinese Camp commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
0% of workers work from home, next to 17% for California as a whole. Employers in Chinese Camp report 14 jobs for 60 working residents. Only 2% work in Chinese Camp itself; outside it, Modesto draws the most (7%, 34 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Chinese Camp
On a workday 59 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 13 people come in from elsewhere.
About 23 people are in Chinese Camp on a workday afternoon, 67% 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.
The towns that employ Chinese Camp’s residents
Where Chinese Camp clocks in
7% of workers
5% of workers
5% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Chinese Camp
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chinese Camp, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 14. 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 Chinese Camp’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Chinese Camp
of Chinese Camp workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 17 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.
Miles to work from Chinese Camp
About 58% 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 Chinese Camp: questions
What is the poverty rate in Chinese Camp?
43.5%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Chinese Camp work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Modesto (7%, 34 mi), Turlock (5%, 34 mi), Visalia (5%, 123 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Chinese Camp without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chinese Camp, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chinese Camp
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.