Photo: Stepheng3 at English Wikipedia · Public domainForestville has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
475 jobs are based in Forestville, against 1,317 working residents. Forestville grades B for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Measured by household income, Forestville is ahead of 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Forestville, in a few figures
Forestville and Santa Rosa trade workers both ways
Santa Rosa is the top workplace for Forestville residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Forestville come from (26% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Forestville are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical California 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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Forestville
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Forestville is better than 60% of U.S. towns, #402 of 847 in California. Household income holds Forestville’s grade up ($115,962, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (6.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Forestville could be anywhere from C+ to A.
22% of working residents work in Santa Rosa
Where Forestville clocks in
22% of workers
4% 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.
About 21 minutes to work from Forestville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Forestville workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,405 commuters (the 21% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Forestville
On a workday 1,247 residents head out to work, 70 work right here, and 405 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,900 people are in Forestville 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.
The kinds of work in Forestville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Forestville, 2013 → 2023: 511 → 475. 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 Forestville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Forestville
About 24% 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.
In Forestville, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Forestville is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns, #692 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.4% 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 1,777 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 24% 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 53% 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). 1.6% of Forestville households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Forestville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Forestville is 1,705th among 4,318 U.S. towns of 2,600 to 5,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Del Mar CA | 3,858 | $199K | 2.7% | 1.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 74 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 128 | Emerald Lake Hills CA | 4,235 | $250K | 4.6% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,703 | Jim Thorpe PA | 4,531 | $73K | 7.6% | 3.4% | 18% | B |
| 1,704 | Bellevue Township MI | 3,218 | $84K | 10.7% | 2.7% | 6% | B |
| 1,705 | Forestville CA | 3,717 | $116K | 7.4% | 6.7% | 5% | B |
| 1,706 | Venersborg WA | 4,262 | $118K | 3.0% | 7.9% | 1% | B |
| 1,707 | Newcastle WY | 3,349 | $83K | 7.3% | 0.4% | 48% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,318 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Forestville, 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 Forestville: questions
What is the median household income in Forestville?
$115,962 (±$33,861) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Forestville?
7.4%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Forestville?
21 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Forestville work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Santa Rosa (22%, 10 mi), Sebastopol (4%, 7 mi), San Francisco (4%, 55 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Forestville walkable?
Forestville is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Forestville 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 Forestville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Forestville
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.