Photo: Cbl62 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Fillmore commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Fillmore report 2,405 jobs, against 8,562 working residents. Fillmore grades B+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. About one in ten work in Fillmore; the top destination outside it is Los Angeles (13%, 39 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Fillmore
Where Fillmore’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Fillmore is better than 72% of U.S. towns, #271 of 847 in California. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Fillmore’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Fillmore could be anywhere from B− to A.
The distance from Fillmore to work
About 22% 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.
Fillmore by day and by night
On a workday 7,732 residents head out to work, 830 work right here, and 1,575 people come in from elsewhere.
About 11,000 people are in Fillmore on a workday afternoon, 36% 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.
The towns that employ Fillmore’s residents
Where Fillmore clocks in
6% 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 Fillmore’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fillmore, 2013 → 2023: 2,234 → 2,405. 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 Fillmore’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 33 minutes each way, longer than most of California
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fillmore workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,897 commuters (the 12% 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.
In Fillmore, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fillmore is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns, #585 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.0% 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 7,819 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 21% 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 0.6 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). 6.0% of Fillmore households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Fillmore’s commuters take a bus or train.
856th of 1,999: where Fillmore ranks among U.S. towns of 12,000 to 23,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Orinda CA | 19,507 | $250K | 2.2% | 3.4% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 89 | Alamo CA | 14,488 | $250K | 2.1% | 3.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 121 | Coto de Caza CA | 15,190 | $244K | 3.0% | 3.4% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 854 | Clemmons NC | 22,808 | $88K | 6.5% | 4.5% | 8% | B+ |
| 855 | Cumming GA | 12,494 | $86K | 13.4% | 2.4% | 10% | B+ |
| 856 | Fillmore CA | 16,937 | $93K | 7.0% | 3.4% | 10% | B+ |
| 857 | Niceville FL | 17,948 | $102K | 10.3% | 1.1% | 14% | B+ |
| 858 | South Euclid OH | 21,248 | $81K | 6.5% | 4.9% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,999 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Fillmore, 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 Fillmore: questions
What is the median household income in Fillmore?
$92,931 (±$14,240) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fillmore?
7.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fillmore?
33 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fillmore work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Los Angeles (13%, 39 mi), San Buenaventura (Ventura) (11%, 21 mi), Oxnard (6%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fillmore walkable?
Fillmore is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fillmore without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fillmore, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fillmore
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.