Coloma · Photo: The original uploader was Swampyank at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0Work and commuting in Coloma
The average commute takes 21 minutes each way, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. Only 2% stay in Coloma for work; outside it, Sacramento is the main destination (10%, 35 miles). Employers in Coloma report 192 jobs; 181 of its residents have a job.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Coloma
On a workday 178 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 189 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.06 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Coloma goes to work
Where Coloma clocks in
10% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Coloma, 2013 → 2023: 75 → 192. 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 Coloma’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Coloma, about 21 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Coloma workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 224 commuters (the 22% 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.
How far it is to work from Coloma
About 25% 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 Coloma: questions
What is the median household income in Coloma?
$104,543 (±$30,680) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Coloma?
20.4%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Coloma?
21 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Coloma work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (10%, 35 mi), Placerville (5%, 7 mi), Rancho Cordova (5%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Coloma 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 Coloma, from the people who make the trip.
More of Coloma
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.