Photo: Bruce Fingerhood from Springfield, Oregon, US · CC BY 2.0At 11.1%, unemployment in Corcoran is higher than in 96% of U.S. towns
For 4% of workers, the job is at home, where California as a whole has 17%. The two grades for Corcoran are D for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. About one in five work in Corcoran itself; outside it, Fresno draws the most (7%, 50 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Corcoran stands out on work
Corcoran trades workers with the towns around it
Corcoran has about as many jobs (5,471) as working residents (5,620), but they are mostly different people: 4,549 residents leave for work each day while 4,400 people come in. Only 20% of the jobs in Corcoran are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
The jobs in Corcoran pay better than its residents’ jobs
80% of the jobs based in Corcoran pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 55% of the jobs Corcoran residents hold. 80% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Corcoran. The jobs ↓
No single place dominates Corcoran’s commute
The biggest draw, Fresno, gets only 7% of working residents, and 51% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Corcoran residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Corcoran are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical California worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Corcoran workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 17% across California. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
Where Corcoran’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Corcoran is better than 10% of U.S. towns, #783 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Corcoran’s grade up (ahead of 36% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Corcoran could be anywhere from D to C−.
Corcoran by day and by night
On a workday 4,549 residents head out to work, 1,071 work right here, and 4,400 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 (0.97 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Corcoran
5,471 jobs are based in Corcoran.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Corcoran, 2013 → 2023: 3,717 → 5,471. 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 Corcoran’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Corcoran’s working residents head each day
Where Corcoran clocks in
7% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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.
Commuting from Corcoran: about 22 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Corcoran workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,735 commuters (the 4% 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 many miles Corcoran commutes
About 34% 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.
Few in Corcoran walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Corcoran is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns, #726 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.5% 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 4,941 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 49% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 6% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 43% 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). 7.2% of Corcoran households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Corcoran’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 16,000 to 30,000, and where Corcoran sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Orinda CA | 19,507 | $250K | 2.2% | 3.4% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 146 | Lafayette CA | 25,313 | $228K | 2.9% | 4.3% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 178 | La Cañada Flintridge CA | 19,480 | $242K | 3.5% | 5.0% | 6% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,623 | New Castle PA | 21,175 | $42K | 28.0% | 12.5% | 23% | D |
| 1,624 | El Dorado AR | 16,609 | $49K | 23.3% | 7.0% | 49% | D |
| 1,625 | Corcoran CA | 22,358 | $60K | 20.7% | 11.1% | 19% | D |
| 1,626 | Yucca Valley CA | 21,887 | $60K | 15.7% | 6.6% | 15% | D |
| 1,627 | Palestine TX | 19,555 | $45K | 17.6% | 7.0% | 34% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 1,658 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Corcoran, 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 Corcoran: questions
What is the median household income in Corcoran?
$59,905 (±$6,616) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Corcoran?
20.7%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Corcoran?
22 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Corcoran work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fresno (7%, 50 mi), Hanford (6%, 18 mi), Visalia (6%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Corcoran walkable?
Corcoran is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Corcoran without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 6% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Corcoran, from the people who make the trip.
More of Corcoran
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.