Photo: Dcoetzee · Public domainHouseholds in Dixon have higher incomes than those in 79% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 10.2% of residents, where California as a whole has 12.0%. The two grades for Dixon are B for jobs and income and B for walkability. About one in seven work in Dixon; the top destination outside it is Vacaville (10%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How Dixon earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Dixon is better than 62% of U.S. towns, #390 of 847 in California. Household income holds Dixon’s grade up ($102,878, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (5.9%, 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, Dixon could be anywhere from B− to A−.
The daily commute in and out of Dixon
On a workday 7,696 residents head out to work, 1,143 work right here, and 4,062 people come in from elsewhere.
About 17,000 people are in Dixon on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.59 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.
Where Dixon’s working residents head each day
Where Dixon clocks in
9% 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.
65% of the jobs in Dixon pay over $3,333 a month
5,205 jobs are based in Dixon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dixon, 2013 → 2023: 4,505 → 5,205. 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 Dixon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 27 minutes each way, quicker than most of California
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dixon workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8,360 commuters (the 12% 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.
How far Dixon’s workers travel
About 21% 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 Dixon, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dixon is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns, #602 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.7% 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 9,484 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 9% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 9% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 48% 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). 4.8% of Dixon households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dixon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Dixon is 982nd of 1,787 U.S. towns of 15,000 to 29,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Wolf Trap VA | 15,858 | $250K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Orinda CA | 19,507 | $250K | 2.2% | 3.4% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 116 | Coto de Caza CA | 15,190 | $244K | 3.0% | 3.4% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 161 | Lafayette CA | 25,313 | $228K | 2.9% | 4.3% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 980 | South Milwaukee WI | 20,191 | $73K | 13.1% | 3.6% | 7% | B |
| 981 | Live Oak CA | 16,911 | $104K | 12.9% | 4.1% | 11% | B |
| 982 | Dixon CA | 21,116 | $103K | 10.2% | 5.9% | 13% | B |
| 983 | Auburndale FL | 21,369 | $78K | 9.6% | 3.5% | 7% | B |
| 984 | Bear DE | 22,370 | $92K | 8.7% | 5.9% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,787 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Dixon, 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 Dixon: questions
What is the median household income in Dixon?
$102,878 (±$7,700) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dixon?
10.2%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dixon?
27 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dixon work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vacaville (10%, 10 mi), Sacramento (9%, 21 mi), Fairfield (8%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dixon walkable?
Dixon is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 9.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dixon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 9% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dixon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dixon
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.