Photo: NoeHill · CC BY-SA 3.0Where Fort Jones earns its living
For 6% of workers, the job is at home, against 17% across California. Only 6% work in Fort Jones; the top destination outside it is Yreka (19%, 13 miles). Commuters spend 25 minutes getting to work on average; California averages 29, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Fort Jones, in brief
The distance from Fort Jones to work
About 40% 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 and out of Fort Jones on a workday
On a workday 216 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 140 people come in from elsewhere.
About 580 people are in Fort Jones on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.67 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.
Commuting out of Fort Jones: the destinations
Where Fort Jones clocks in
19% of workers
7% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
153 jobs are based in Fort Jones.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fort Jones, 2013 → 2023: 147 → 153. 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 Fort Jones’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes to work from Fort Jones
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fort Jones workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 173 commuters (the 6% 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.
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 Fort Jones: questions
What is the median household income in Fort Jones?
$47,375 (±$15,200) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fort Jones?
30.1%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fort Jones?
25 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fort Jones work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Yreka (19%, 13 mi), Etna (7%, 11 mi), Redding (4%, 76 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fort Jones without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fort Jones, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fort Jones
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.