Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm · Photo: NoeHill · CC BY-SA 3.0Cold Springs has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Hardly any work in Cold Springs itself; outside it, Placerville draws the most (13%, 4 miles). There are 47 jobs in Cold Springs, against 237 working residents. For 27% of workers, the job is at home, where California as a whole has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Cold Springs and work: the main findings
Cold Springs is a place people come home to
There are 47 jobs based in Cold Springs, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Cold Springs has about 260 people in it, 42% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Cold Springs 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 ↓
A lot of Cold Springs works from home
27% of Cold Springs workers work from home, against 17% across California. 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 237 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How a workday changes Cold Springs
On a workday 237 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 47 people come in from elsewhere.
About 260 people are in Cold Springs on a workday afternoon, 42% 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.
A commute of about 20 minutes in Cold Springs
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cold Springs workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 172 commuters (the 27% 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 Cold Springs goes to work
Where Cold Springs 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.
Jobs in Cold Springs: what the 47 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cold Springs, 2013 → 2023: 34 → 47. 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 Cold Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Cold Springs
About 29% 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 Cold Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Cold Springs?
$73,578 (±$2,622) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cold Springs?
15.8%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cold Springs?
20 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 27% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cold Springs work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Placerville (13%, 4 mi), Diamond Springs (12%, 4 mi), Sacramento (8%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cold Springs 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 Cold Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cold Springs
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.