Most of Citrus Heights commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 4.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 7.8 in Sacramento. Employers in Citrus Heights report 15,342 jobs; 35,252 of its residents have a job. Citrus Heights grades B for jobs and income and A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Citrus Heights apart
How Citrus Heights earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Citrus Heights is better than 60% of U.S. towns, #406 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Citrus Heights’ grade up (ahead of 89% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Citrus Heights could be anywhere from B− to B+.
What Citrus Heights’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Citrus Heights, 2013 → 2023: 14,922 → 15,342. 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 Citrus Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Citrus Heights
On a workday 33,214 residents head out to work, 2,038 work right here, and 13,304 people come in from elsewhere.
About 66,000 people are in Citrus Heights on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
17% of working residents work in Sacramento
Where Citrus Heights clocks in
17% of workers
12% 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 daily trip from Citrus Heights: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Citrus Heights workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 34,048 commuters (the 17% 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.
Where in the region Citrus Heights works
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.
Citrus Heights 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, Citrus Heights is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns, #323 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 7.1% across California.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 40,974 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 79% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 7% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 84% 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). 4.1% of Citrus Heights households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Citrus Heights’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Citrus Heights is 302nd among 540 U.S. towns of 60,000 to 117,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lakeville MN | 79,270 | $139K | 2.9% | 2.0% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Fulshear TX | 64,630 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Plymouth MN | 78,942 | $137K | 4.3% | 2.3% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | South San Francisco CA | 64,941 | $137K | 6.7% | 2.8% | 12% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Dublin CA | 71,602 | $214K | 4.5% | 3.8% | 6% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Mountain View CA | 85,438 | $190K | 6.0% | 3.7% | 16% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 300 | Corvallis OR | 61,499 | $65K | 24.3% | 8.4% | 46% | B |
| 301 | Cheyenne WY | 66,507 | $79K | 8.7% | 3.7% | 70% | B |
| 302 | Citrus Heights CA | 86,348 | $82K | 8.6% | 6.7% | 6% | B |
| 303 | Janesville WI | 66,929 | $73K | 9.0% | 4.1% | 40% | B |
| 304 | Bayonne NJ | 74,744 | $84K | 14.4% | 5.4% | 15% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 540 | Albany GA | 66,907 | $47K | 27.5% | 11.2% | 51% | 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 Citrus Heights, the top three, the last and three more from California.
16% of Citrus Heights works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Roseville (12%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Citrus Heights workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citrus Heights | – | B | A | 28 min | $82,314 |
| Carmichael | 4% | B− | A | 27 min | $85,914 |
| Orangevale | under 2% | B+ | B | 28 min | $99,832 |
| Antelope | under 2% | B | A− | 29 min | $99,067 |
| Fair Oaks | under 2% | B+ | A− | 30 min | $116,975 |
| Roseville | 12% | A− | B+ | 27 min | $119,288 |
| Foothill Farms | under 2% | C+ | A− | 28 min | $68,260 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Citrus Heights’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 Citrus Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Citrus Heights?
$82,314 (±$4,006) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Citrus Heights?
8.6%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Citrus Heights?
28 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Citrus Heights work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (17%, 13 mi), Roseville (12%, 6 mi), Rancho Cordova (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Citrus Heights walkable?
Citrus Heights is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 12.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Citrus Heights without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 7% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Citrus Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Citrus Heights
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.