Cutler has higher unemployment (11.5%) than 97% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers, where California as a whole has 17%. Jobs and income earn Cutler D; getting around on foot earns it C+. Only 6% stay in Cutler for work; outside it, Visalia is the main destination (15%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Cutler and work: the main findings
Cutler makes and builds things
75% of the jobs based in Cutler are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Cutler residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 36%. The jobs ↓
Cutler trades workers with the towns around it
Cutler has about as many jobs (1,188) as working residents (1,152), but they are mostly different people: 1,087 residents leave for work each day while 1,123 people come in. Only 5% of the jobs in Cutler are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Few Cutler workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 17% across California. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Cutler and Visalia trade workers both ways
Visalia is the top workplace for Cutler residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Cutler come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Cutler than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Cutler fell from 1,791 in 2013 to 1,188 in 2023, −34%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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.
What’s behind Cutler’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cutler is better than 11% of U.S. towns, #772 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Cutler’s grade up (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cutler could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Goods jobs make up 75% of work in Cutler
1,188 jobs are based in Cutler.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cutler, 2013 → 2023: 1,791 → 1,188. 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 Cutler’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Cutler for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,087 residents head out to work, 65 work right here, and 1,123 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 (1.03 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.
Commuting from Cutler: about 28 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cutler workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,366 commuters (the 2% 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 Cutler goes to work
Where Cutler clocks in
15% of workers
8% 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.
Where in the region Cutler works
About 22% 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.
Driving is how Cutler gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cutler is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns, #733 of 847 in California. Both inputs place Cutler near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,398 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 2.1% of Cutler households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cutler’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Cutler sits among U.S. towns of 3,100 to 5,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Del Mar CA | 3,858 | $199K | 2.7% | 1.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 78 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,538 | Clearfield PA | 5,753 | $55K | 20.1% | 8.3% | 17% | D |
| 3,539 | Sacaton AZ | 3,429 | $49K | 29.3% | 14.0% | 5% | D |
| 3,540 | Cutler CA | 4,361 | $59K | 24.9% | 11.5% | 6% | D |
| 3,541 | Gamewell NC | 3,713 | $47K | 21.5% | 5.7% | 2% | D |
| 3,542 | Perkins OK | 3,271 | $35K | 32.0% | 4.2% | 11% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,908 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Cutler, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Cutler and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Orosi (7%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Cutler’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 Cutler: questions
What is the median household income in Cutler?
$59,231 (±$22,216) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cutler?
24.9%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cutler?
28 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cutler work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Visalia (15%, 14 mi), Fresno (8%, 33 mi), Dinuba (8%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cutler walkable?
Cutler is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cutler without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cutler, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cutler
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.