Simon Pinschower House · Photo: Sanfranman59 · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Cloverdale works elsewhere
Household incomes here are higher than in 87% of U.S. towns. Cloverdale has 1,656 jobs for 3,850 working residents. Jobs and income earn Cloverdale A−; getting around on foot earns it A−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Cloverdale stands out on work
How Cloverdale earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cloverdale is better than 79% of U.S. towns, #174 of 847 in California. Household income holds Cloverdale’s grade up ($117,177, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 32% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cloverdale could be anywhere from B to A.
Cloverdale’s commute, mile by mile
About 26% 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 flow of workers through Cloverdale
On a workday 3,210 residents head out to work, 640 work right here, and 1,016 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,500 people are in Cloverdale on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
13% of working residents work in Santa Rosa
Where Cloverdale clocks in
13% of workers
8% 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.
A place that makes things: 31% of Cloverdale’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cloverdale, 2013 → 2023: 1,447 → 1,656. 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 Cloverdale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Cloverdale spends getting to work: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cloverdale workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,047 commuters (the 12% 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.
In Cloverdale, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cloverdale is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns, #354 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.2% 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 4,625 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 85% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 85% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 51% 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 Cloverdale households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Cloverdale’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cloverdale places 819th of 2,893 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 6,100 to 11,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 3 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Piedmont CA | 10,642 | $250K | 4.3% | 1.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 97 | Sierra Madre CA | 10,620 | $144K | 4.6% | 2.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 817 | Skidaway Island GA | 9,315 | $136K | 2.5% | 5.7% | 10% | A− |
| 818 | West Haven-Sylvan OR | 7,674 | $110K | 10.4% | 3.6% | 4% | A− |
| 819 | Cloverdale CA | 8,701 | $117K | 4.1% | 2.8% | 17% | A− |
| 820 | Alexandria KY | 10,994 | $102K | 7.7% | 3.2% | 7% | A− |
| 821 | Pleasantville NY | 7,391 | $136K | 5.7% | 7.7% | 8% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,893 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Cloverdale, 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 Cloverdale: questions
What is the median household income in Cloverdale?
$117,177 (±$17,767) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cloverdale?
4.1%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cloverdale?
25 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cloverdale work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Santa Rosa (13%, 29 mi), Healdsburg (8%, 14 mi), Windsor (4%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cloverdale walkable?
Cloverdale is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 12.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cloverdale without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 85% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cloverdale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cloverdale
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.