Most of Foothill Farms commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Foothill Farms report 4,557 jobs, and 14,228 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Foothill Farms is better than 38% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (A−). Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 1.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 7.8 in Sacramento.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Foothill Farms stands out on work
Foothill Farms has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Foothill Farms went from 2,875 in 2013 to 4,557 in 2023, +59%. The jobs ↓
Foothill Farms and Sacramento trade workers both ways
Sacramento is the top workplace for Foothill Farms residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Foothill Farms come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Foothill Farms makes and builds things
35% of the jobs based in Foothill Farms are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Foothill Farms residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 14%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Foothill Farms’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Job access by car holds Foothill Farms’ grade up (ahead of 90% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (7.1%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Foothill Farms could be anywhere from C to B−.
Foothill Farms makes things: 35% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Foothill Farms, 2013 → 2023: 2,875 → 4,557. 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 Foothill Farms’s own residents hold wherever they work.
21% of working residents work in Sacramento
Where Foothill Farms clocks in
21% of workers
9% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Foothill Farms
On a workday 13,818 residents head out to work, 410 work right here, and 4,147 people come in from elsewhere.
About 27,000 people are in Foothill Farms on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
A commute of about 28 minutes in Foothill Farms
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Foothill Farms workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 12,964 commuters (the 13% 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.
How far Foothill Farms’ workers travel
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.
Foothill Farms is easy on foot, hard by bus
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.4% 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 14,866 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 72% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 14% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 65% 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). 7.8% of Foothill Farms households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Foothill Farms’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 26,000 to 49,000, Foothill Farms ranks 905th of 1,131 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
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| 66 | Manhattan Beach CA | 33,122 | $204K | 4.5% | 3.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 74 | Saratoga CA | 30,418 | $250K | 3.3% | 4.0% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 118 | Newark CA | 47,895 | $169K | 4.3% | 4.3% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 903 | Bowling Green OH | 31,182 | $45K | 28.6% | 5.7% | 34% | C+ |
| 904 | University FL | 41,902 | $60K | 27.0% | 8.4% | 9% | C+ |
| 905 | Foothill Farms CA | 36,435 | $68K | 17.6% | 7.1% | 3% | C+ |
| 906 | Cape Girardeau MO | 40,977 | $56K | 20.8% | 2.6% | 47% | C+ |
| 907 | Kiryas Joel NY | 47,147 | $50K | 37.6% | 2.2% | 41% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,131 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Foothill Farms, the top three, the last and three more from California.
How Foothill Farms compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to North Highlands (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Foothill Farms workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foothill Farms | – | C+ | A− | 28 min | $68,260 |
| North Highlands | 3% | C+ | A− | 31 min | $65,495 |
| Antelope | under 3% | B | A− | 29 min | $99,067 |
| Carmichael | 3% | B− | A | 27 min | $85,914 |
| Citrus Heights | 3% | B | A | 28 min | $82,314 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Foothill Farms’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 Foothill Farms: questions
What is the median household income in Foothill Farms?
$68,260 (±$3,844) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Foothill Farms?
17.6%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Foothill Farms?
28 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Foothill Farms work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (21%, 10 mi), Roseville (9%, 6 mi), Rancho Cordova (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Foothill Farms walkable?
Foothill Farms is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 11.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Foothill Farms without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 14% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Foothill Farms, from the people who make the trip.
More of Foothill Farms
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.