Foresthill has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Home is the office for 7% of workers, against 17% across California. There are 345 jobs in Foresthill, and 691 of its residents work somewhere. Foresthill grades C+ for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Foresthill: the gist
The better-paid jobs are outside Foresthill
70% of Foresthill residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 45% of the jobs based in Foresthill pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 92% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Foresthill workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 38 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 291 hours of commuting, 69 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 691 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Foresthill gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Foresthill is better than 40% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Foresthill’s grade up (7.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.7%) is left out: Foresthill’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Foresthill could be anywhere from D− to A−.
What Foresthill’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Foresthill, 2013 → 2023: 228 → 345. 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 Foresthill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Foresthill takes about 38 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Foresthill workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 605 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.
How a workday changes Foresthill
On a workday 638 residents head out to work, 53 work right here, and 292 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Foresthill on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
11% of working residents work in North Auburn
Where Foresthill clocks in
8% 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.
How far it is to work from Foresthill
About 26% 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.
Most trips from Foresthill start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Foresthill is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns. 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 651 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). 2.2% of Foresthill households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Foresthill’s commuters take a bus or train.
Foresthill is 2,868th of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 22 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,866 | Union Township OH | 1,816 | $80K | 9.6% | 6.2% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,867 | Washington Township OH | 1,273 | $68K | 7.6% | 6.3% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,868 | Foresthill CA | 1,483 | $81K | 7.7% | 2.7% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,869 | Thunder Mountain NM | 1,366 | $47K | 2.9% | 0.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,870 | Depoe Bay OR | 1,533 | $85K | 8.0% | 12.9% | 12% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Foresthill, 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 Foresthill: questions
What is the median household income in Foresthill?
$81,111 (±$54,432) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Foresthill?
7.7%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Foresthill?
38 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Foresthill work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are North Auburn (11%, 14 mi), Sacramento (8%, 46 mi), Roseville (7%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Foresthill walkable?
Foresthill is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Foresthill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Foresthill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Foresthill
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.