El Macero has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
El Macero has 114 jobs, against 409 working residents. Hardly any stay in El Macero for work; outside it, Sacramento is the main destination (22%, 12 miles). Working residents average 33 minutes each way, against 29 across California and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: El Macero in brief
How a workday changes El Macero
On a workday 407 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 112 people come in from elsewhere.
About 500 people are in El Macero on a workday afternoon, 37% fewer 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 El Macero goes to work
Where El Macero clocks in
22% of workers
11% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in El Macero, 2013 → 2023: 92 → 114. 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 El Macero’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from El Macero: about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of El Macero workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 255 commuters (the 22% 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.
Half of El Macero commutes less than 14 miles
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.
Work next door: 11% of El Macero’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Davis. Darker towns draw more of El Macero’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 El Macero: questions
What is the median household income in El Macero?
$227,500 (±$66,958) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in El Macero?
0.9%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from El Macero?
33 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in El Macero work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (22%, 12 mi), Davis (11%, 3 mi), University of California-Davis (7%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around El Macero 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 El Macero, from the people who make the trip.
More of El Macero
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.