Photo: LA1745 · CC BY 4.0Dinuba has higher unemployment (10.6%) than 95% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Dinuba D; getting around on foot earns it B−. For 6% of workers, the job is at home, against 17% across California. About one in five work in Dinuba; the top destination outside it is Visalia (13%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Dinuba, in brief
Dinuba makes and builds things
46% of the jobs based in Dinuba are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Dinuba residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 31%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Dinuba are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical California worker. Time on the road ↓
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 Dinuba earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Dinuba is better than 11% of U.S. towns, #776 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Dinuba’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, Dinuba could be anywhere from D to C−.
Goods jobs make up 46% of work in Dinuba
6,926 jobs are based in Dinuba.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dinuba, 2013 → 2023: 5,867 → 6,926. 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 Dinuba’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Dinuba
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dinuba workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9,233 commuters (the 6% 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.
Who works in Dinuba, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 7,382 residents head out to work, 1,713 work right here, and 5,213 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 (0.76 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 out of Dinuba: the destinations
Where Dinuba clocks in
13% of workers
11% 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.
Dinuba’s commute, mile by mile
About 18% 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.
In Dinuba, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dinuba is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns, #677 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 7.1% across California.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 9,855 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). 5.0% of Dinuba households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Dinuba’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Dinuba compares with U.S. towns of 18,000 to 35,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Orinda CA | 19,507 | $250K | 2.2% | 3.4% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | Manhattan Beach CA | 33,122 | $204K | 4.5% | 3.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 122 | Saratoga CA | 30,418 | $250K | 3.3% | 4.0% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,546 | Nacogdoches TX | 32,500 | $39K | 31.5% | 8.2% | 42% | D |
| 1,547 | Kingsville TX | 24,687 | $58K | 30.8% | 8.6% | 31% | D |
| 1,548 | Dinuba CA | 25,949 | $59K | 26.8% | 10.6% | 19% | D |
| 1,549 | Alamogordo NM | 31,906 | $56K | 16.6% | 7.5% | 49% | D |
| 1,550 | Ruston LA | 22,397 | $31K | 39.8% | 3.4% | 42% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 1,576 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 Dinuba, 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 Dinuba: questions
What is the median household income in Dinuba?
$59,484 (±$8,047) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dinuba?
26.8%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dinuba?
23 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dinuba work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Visalia (13%, 15 mi), Fresno (11%, 28 mi), Reedley (5%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dinuba walkable?
Dinuba is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 9.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dinuba without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dinuba, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dinuba
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.