Crowley Lake has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs & income C−: better than 22% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability B+: more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are higher than in 86% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 25 minutes each way (California 29, U.S. 26). Only 3% work in Crowley Lake; the top destination outside it is Mammoth Lakes (26%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Crowley Lake
A big share show a job far from home
46% 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 ↓
Crowley Lake and Mammoth Lakes trade workers both ways
Mammoth Lakes is the top workplace for Crowley Lake residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Crowley Lake come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Crowley Lake is a place people come home to
There are 153 jobs based in Crowley Lake, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Crowley Lake has about 720 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 506 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Crowley Lake’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Crowley Lake is better than 22% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Crowley Lake’s grade up ($115,476, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Crowley Lake’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Crowley Lake could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Half of Crowley Lake commutes less than 25 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 46% 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.
26% of working residents work in Mammoth Lakes
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Crowley Lake clocks in
26% of workers
8% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Crowley Lake quiets down on a workday
On a workday 491 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 138 people come in from elsewhere.
About 720 people are in Crowley Lake on a workday afternoon, 33% fewer than live here.
0.30 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
What the 153 jobs in Crowley Lake are
153 jobs are based in Crowley Lake. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Crowley Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crowley Lake, 2013 → 2023: 56 → 153. 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.
About 25 minutes each way, quicker than most of California
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crowley Lake workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 475 commuters (the 21% who work from home are left out). Across California: 79% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Most trips from Crowley Lake start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Crowley Lake is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 598 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% 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). 0.0% of Crowley Lake households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Crowley Lake’s commuters take a bus or train.
Crowley Lake is 2,020th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Crowley Lake, the top three, the last and three more from California.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 13 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,018 | Tyler MN | 1,112 | $66K | 10.6% | 4.1% | 18% | C− |
| 2,019 | Spencer Township IN | 1,244 | $54K | 16.2% | 16.8% | 5% | C− |
| 2,020 | Crowley Lake CA | 1,069 | $115K | 32.3% | 0.0% | 3% | C− |
| 2,021 | Orange Township MI | 1,322 | $70K | 11.2% | 1.7% | 1% | C− |
| 2,022 | Littleville AL | 1,065 | $56K | 11.4% | 1.5% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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.
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 Crowley Lake: questions
What is the median household income in Crowley Lake?
$115,476 (±$71,455) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crowley Lake?
32.3%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crowley Lake?
25 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crowley Lake work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mammoth Lakes (26%, 14 mi), Bishop (8%, 24 mi), Bridgeport (4%, 54 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Crowley Lake walkable?
Crowley Lake is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crowley Lake without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crowley Lake, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crowley Lake
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.