Woodleaf Hotel · Photo: Rifflebox · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Clipper Mills works elsewhere
Hardly any work in Clipper Mills; the top destination outside it is Oroville (17%, 21 miles). Clipper Mills has 3 jobs, and 29 of its residents work somewhere. For 0% of workers, the job is at home; California has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Clipper Mills on a workday afternoon
On a workday 29 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 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.
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 Clipper Mills: the destinations
Where Clipper Mills clocks in
17% of workers
7% 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.
Most jobs in Clipper Mills are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clipper Mills, 2013 → 2023: 8 → 3. 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 Clipper Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Clipper Mills
of Clipper Mills workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 152 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Clipper Mills
About 52% 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 Clipper Mills: questions
What is the poverty rate in Clipper Mills?
85.7%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Clipper Mills work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oroville (17%, 21 mi), Oroville East (10%, 17 mi), Folsom (7%, 60 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Clipper Mills 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 Clipper Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clipper Mills
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.