Elverta has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Jobs and income earn Elverta B; getting around on foot earns it C. Employers in Elverta report 298 jobs for 2,266 working residents. Home is the office for 7% of workers; California has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Elverta: the gist
Elverta’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Elverta is better than 63% of U.S. towns, #378 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Elverta’s grade up (ahead of 79% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.0%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Elverta could be anywhere from C+ to A.
The workday shuffle in and out of Elverta
On a workday 2,223 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 255 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,800 people are in Elverta on a workday afternoon, 41% 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.
26% of working residents work in Sacramento
Where Elverta clocks in
26% of workers
7% 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.
In Elverta, 35% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Elverta, 2013 → 2023: 257 → 298. 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 Elverta’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 30 minutes to work from Elverta
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Elverta workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,908 commuters (the 7% 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 distance from Elverta to work
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 Elverta, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Elverta is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns, #790 of 847 in California. Both inputs place Elverta near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,047 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). 0.9% of Elverta households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Elverta’s commuters take a bus or train.
Elverta is 1,499th of 3,867 U.S. towns of 3,300 to 6,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Del Mar CA | 3,858 | $199K | 2.7% | 1.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 79 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,497 | Chester CT | 3,726 | $109K | 11.8% | 4.8% | 11% | B |
| 1,498 | Twin Lakes CA | 5,073 | $90K | 10.6% | 3.5% | 2% | B |
| 1,499 | Elverta CA | 4,769 | $91K | 8.0% | 6.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,500 | Mulberry OH | 3,821 | $76K | 6.6% | 5.4% | 2% | B |
| 1,501 | Wilmore KY | 6,380 | $78K | 12.5% | 2.5% | 16% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,867 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Elverta, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Around Elverta: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Rio Linda (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Elverta’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 Elverta: questions
What is the median household income in Elverta?
$91,168 (±$14,799) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Elverta?
8.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Elverta?
30 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Elverta work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (26%, 10 mi), Roseville (7%, 8 mi), Rancho Cordova (4%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Elverta walkable?
Elverta is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Elverta without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Elverta, from the people who make the trip.
More of Elverta
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.