Household incomes put Diablo near the very top of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 13.2% of residents, against 12.0% across California. Household incomes here are among the highest in the country. The two grades for Diablo are A− for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Diablo
Diablo’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Diablo is San Francisco, 26 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (46) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Four in five Diablo workers earn over $40,000 a year
80% of Diablo’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, the top earnings band in the Census data. 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; with 504 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Diablo’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Diablo is better than 82% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Diablo’s grade up ($248,150, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down. It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: Diablo’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Diablo could be anywhere from C+ to A+.
The distance from Diablo to work
About 16% 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.
Most jobs in Diablo are in services
243 jobs are based in Diablo.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Diablo, 2013 → 2023: 257 → 243. 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 Diablo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Diablo
On a workday 502 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 241 people come in from elsewhere.
About 970 people are in Diablo on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
0.48 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.
9% of working residents work in San Francisco
Where Diablo clocks in
8% of workers
6% 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.
About 33 minutes each way for Diablo’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Diablo workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 560 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Diablo
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Diablo is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 28.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 591 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). 16.9% of Diablo households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 7% of Diablo’s commuters take a bus or train.
Diablo is 404th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 16 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 402 | Washington Township IN | 1,227 | $105K | 0.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A− |
| 403 | North Bethlehem Township PA | 1,541 | $95K | 3.2% | 4.5% | <1% | A− |
| 404 | Diablo CA | 1,232 | $248K | 13.2% | 5.0% | <1% | A− |
| 405 | Greeley Township KS | 1,029 | $83K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 2% | A− |
| 406 | Pownal ME | 1,645 | $104K | 5.5% | 0.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Diablo, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Diablo and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Danville (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Diablo’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 Diablo: questions
What is the median household income in Diablo?
$248,150 (±$178,127) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Diablo?
13.2%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Diablo?
33 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Diablo work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Francisco (9%, 26 mi), San Ramon (8%, 5 mi), Oakland (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Diablo walkable?
Diablo is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 29% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Diablo without a car?
7% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Diablo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Diablo
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.