Photo: Antandrus at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Edison has 2.7 jobs for every working resident: 311 people commute in to work
0% of workers work from home (California 17%). 311 jobs are based in Edison, and 115 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Edison itself; outside it, Bakersfield draws the most (31%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Edison, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 115 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 650 people are in Edison on a workday afternoon, 44% more 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.
Where the people who work in Edison live
Where Edison clocks in
31% 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.
Jobs in Edison: what the 311 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edison, 2013 → 2023: 75 → 311. 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 Edison’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Edison
of Edison workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 175 commuters (the 0% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Edison
About 30% 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.
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 Edison: questions
What is the poverty rate in Edison?
52.6%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Edison work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bakersfield (31%, 10 mi), Los Angeles (4%, 95 mi), East Niles (3%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Edison without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Edison, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edison
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.