Photo: JPxG · CC BY-SA 4.0Cuyama draws 46 commuters a day, with 4.2 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 17% across California. Employers in Cuyama report 46 jobs, against 11 working residents. Hardly any work in Cuyama; the top destination outside it is Lindsay (9%, 93 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Cuyama on a workday afternoon
On a workday 11 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 56 people are in Cuyama on a workday afternoon, 167% more than live here.
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 the people who work in Cuyama live
Where Cuyama clocks in
9% of workers
9% of workers
9% 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.
Cuyama is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Cuyama’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Cuyama
of Cuyama workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 11 commuters (the 0% 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.
Miles to work from Cuyama
About 55% 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 Cuyama: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cuyama?
0.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Cuyama work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lindsay (9%, 93 mi), Arroyo Grande (9%, 56 mi), Eastvale (9%, 134 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cuyama 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 Cuyama, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cuyama
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.