Most of Denair commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 5% of workers, next to 17% for California as a whole. Denair has 534 jobs, and 2,118 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Denair are C+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Denair
Denair and Turlock trade workers both ways
Turlock is the top workplace for Denair residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Denair come from (32% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Denair workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 37 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 284 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Denair is a place people come home to
There are 534 jobs based in Denair, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Denair has about 3,300 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Denair
69% of Denair residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 49% of the jobs based in Denair pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 98% leave town for their job. 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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Denair
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Denair is better than 38% of U.S. towns, #594 of 847 in California. Household income holds Denair’s grade up ($98,750, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (8.1%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Denair could be anywhere from C to B+.
25% of working residents work in Turlock
Where Denair clocks in
25% of workers
13% of workers
5% 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.
Time on the road from Denair: about 37 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Denair workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,061 commuters (the 5% 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.
Denair on a workday afternoon
On a workday 2,067 residents head out to work, 51 work right here, and 483 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,300 people are in Denair on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer 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.
The kinds of work in Denair
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Denair, 2013 → 2023: 436 → 534. 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 Denair’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Denair, by distance
About 25% 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.
Getting around Denair: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Denair is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns, #800 of 847 in California. Both inputs place Denair 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 2,172 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). 3.0% of Denair households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Denair’s commuters take a bus or train.
Denair next to U.S. towns of 3,400 to 6,600: 2,513th of 3,840 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Del Mar CA | 3,858 | $199K | 2.7% | 1.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 84 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,511 | Camden NY | 4,655 | $62K | 7.9% | 3.4% | 25% | C+ |
| 2,512 | Washington Township OH | 4,240 | $76K | 13.0% | 5.2% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,513 | Denair CA | 4,914 | $99K | 18.8% | 8.1% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,514 | Washington Township OH | 4,183 | $64K | 27.6% | 1.9% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,515 | Gardnerville NV | 5,486 | $62K | 14.4% | 2.2% | 14% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,840 | 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 Denair, 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 Denair: questions
What is the median household income in Denair?
$98,750 (±$13,883) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Denair?
18.8%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Denair?
37 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Denair work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Turlock (25%, 4 mi), Modesto (13%, 14 mi), Ceres (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Denair walkable?
Denair is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Denair without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Denair, from the people who make the trip.
More of Denair
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.