Photo: Mike · CC BY 2.0Crescent City has lower household incomes than 98% of U.S. towns
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 2.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 17.5 in Los Angeles. 17.2% of residents live below the poverty line; California has 12.0%. For jobs and income Crescent City is better than 5% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 98% of U.S. towns (A+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Crescent City
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Crescent City’s working residents have a job less than 6 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 39 minutes, longer than the California average of 29. Time on the road ↓
Crescent City is where the jobs are
Crescent City has 3,810 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Most Crescent City residents work close to home
61% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Crescent City
The poverty rate holds Crescent City’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($35,540, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Crescent City could be anywhere from D− to C.
A commute of about 39 minutes in Crescent City
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crescent City workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,457 commuters (the 6% 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.
Crescent City by day and by night
On a workday 1,161 residents head out to work, 692 work right here, and 3,118 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,000 people are in Crescent City on a workday afternoon, 33% more than live here.
2.1 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How far Crescent City’s workers travel
About 32% 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 trip into Crescent City
Where Crescent City clocks in
4% of workers
3% 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.
In Crescent City, services account for most jobs
3,810 jobs are based in Crescent City.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crescent City, 2013 → 2023: 4,470 → 3,810. 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 Crescent City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Crescent City is easy on foot, hard by bus
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,552 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 96% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 96% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 70% 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). 26.0% of Crescent City households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Crescent City’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 4,200 to 8,100, and where Crescent City sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,289 | Wadesboro NC | 5,035 | $43K | 27.4% | 7.0% | 18% | D− |
| 3,290 | Newport VT | 4,274 | $55K | 23.0% | 9.1% | 37% | D− |
| 3,291 | Crescent City CA | 6,002 | $36K | 17.2% | 8.4% | 37% | D− |
| 3,292 | Sandersville GA | 5,397 | $50K | 18.5% | 15.4% | 33% | D− |
| 3,293 | Lawrenceville IL | 4,356 | $41K | 17.4% | 9.1% | 16% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,394 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 4% | 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 Crescent City, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Next door to Crescent City
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Crescent City workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crescent City | – | D− | A+ | 39 min | $35,540 |
| Bertsch-Oceanview | 5% | C | B | 17 min | $73,173 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Bertsch-Oceanview. Darker towns draw more of Crescent City’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Crescent City: questions
What is the median household income in Crescent City?
$35,540 (±$12,890) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crescent City?
17.2%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crescent City?
39 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crescent City work?
37% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bertsch-Oceanview (5%, 2 mi), Eureka (4%, 67 mi), Brookings (3%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Crescent City walkable?
Crescent City is more walkable than 98% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 13.7 out of 20, and 13% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crescent City without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 26% of households have no car. 96% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crescent City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crescent City
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.