Photo: daveynin from United States · CC BY 2.0Work, pay and getting to work in Foresta
0% of workers work from home, where California as a whole has 17%. Hardly any work in Foresta itself; outside it, Yosemite Valley draws the most (30%, 10 miles). Foresta has 15 jobs, against 20 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily commute in and out of Foresta
On a workday 20 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 15 people come in from elsewhere.
About 29 people are in Foresta on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.75 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 places Foresta commutes to
Where Foresta clocks in
30% of workers
10% of workers
5% 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 health care, schools and offices in Foresta
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Foresta’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Foresta
of Foresta workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 34 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Foresta
About 70% 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.
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 Foresta: questions
What is the poverty rate in Foresta?
73.5%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Foresta work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Yosemite Valley (30%, 10 mi), Mountain View (10%, 129 mi), Exeter (5%, 103 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Foresta 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 Foresta, from the people who make the trip.
More of Foresta
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.