Work means Fresno for about half of Easton’s working residents
Jobs and income earn Easton C+; getting around on foot earns it B+. Only 2% work in Easton; the top destination outside it is Fresno (46%, 9 miles). Commuters spend 23 minutes getting to work on average; California averages 29, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Easton
Commutes from Easton 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; with 742 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Easton gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Easton is better than 41% of U.S. towns, #573 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Easton’s grade up (ahead of 79% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (21.1%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Easton could be anywhere from C− to A.
Commuting out of Easton: the destinations
Where Easton clocks in
46% of workers
4% of workers
2% 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 23 minutes each way for Easton’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Easton workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 963 commuters (the 21% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Easton
On a workday 730 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 410 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,400 people are in Easton on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.57 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.
What the 422 jobs in Easton are
422 jobs are based in Easton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Easton, 2013 → 2023: 391 → 422. 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 Easton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Easton
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.
Most trips from Easton start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Easton is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns, #593 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 1,223 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 67% 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). 3.2% of Easton households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Easton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Easton is 2,793rd among 4,969 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 85 | Ross CA | 2,304 | $250K | 4.8% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 111 | Fairbanks Ranch CA | 2,703 | $250K | 5.5% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,791 | Belmont Township IL | 2,362 | $73K | 14.6% | 2.0% | 12% | C+ |
| 2,792 | Toulon Township IL | 2,167 | $63K | 11.8% | 2.7% | 12% | C+ |
| 2,793 | Easton CA | 2,722 | $91K | 21.1% | 7.5% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,794 | Kemmerer WY | 2,353 | $77K | 14.3% | 1.6% | 35% | C+ |
| 2,795 | Corinth ME | 3,139 | $64K | 11.4% | 1.9% | 11% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,969 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Easton, 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 Easton: questions
What is the median household income in Easton?
$91,042 (±$27,705) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Easton?
21.1%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Easton?
23 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Easton work?
2% work in town.
Is Easton walkable?
Easton is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 9.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Easton 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 Easton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Easton
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.