Photo: David Prasad from Welches, OR., United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Household incomes in Fairmead are lower than in 91% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, against 17% across California. Below the poverty line: 32.4% of residents, next to 12.0% across California. For jobs and income Fairmead is better than 8% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (D).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Fairmead
Job access by car holds Fairmead’s grade up (ahead of 42% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (12.8%) is left out: Fairmead’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Fairmead could be anywhere from D to C−.
Fairmead by day and by night
On a workday 186 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 187 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.01 per resident).
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 trip to work from Fairmead ends
Where Fairmead clocks in
9% of workers
9% 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.
What Fairmead’s employers do
188 jobs are based in Fairmead.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fairmead, 2013 → 2023: 638 → 188. 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 Fairmead’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 26 minutes in Fairmead
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fairmead workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 374 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Fairmead
About 46% 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.
Driving is how Fairmead gets around
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 374 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 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 52% 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). 4.3% of Fairmead households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fairmead’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Fairmead is 4,132nd of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 16 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,130 | Evart Township MI | 1,366 | $48K | 12.0% | 15.7% | 1% | D |
| 4,131 | De Peyster NY | 1,052 | $67K | 21.2% | 4.7% | <1% | D |
| 4,132 | Fairmead CA | 1,229 | $47K | 32.4% | 12.8% | 1% | D |
| 4,133 | Joanna SC | 1,306 | $49K | 20.5% | 1.4% | 1% | D |
| 4,134 | Livermore KY | 1,197 | $40K | 20.9% | 5.5% | 4% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Fairmead, the top three, the last and three more from California.
The towns around Fairmead
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Fairmead workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairmead | – | D | D | 26 min | $46,680 |
| Chowchilla | 9% | C− | B− | 26 min | $66,514 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Chowchilla. Darker towns draw more of Fairmead’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 Fairmead: questions
What is the median household income in Fairmead?
$46,680 (±$7,165) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fairmead?
32.4%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fairmead?
26 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fairmead work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fresno (9%, 30 mi), Chowchilla (9%, 4 mi), Merced (7%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fairmead walkable?
Fairmead is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fairmead without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fairmead, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fairmead
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.