Photo: Fruitianslip · CC BY-SA 4.0More people are out of work in Fowler (7.1%) than in 83% of U.S. towns
About one in ten stay in Fowler for work; outside it, Fresno is the main destination (35%, 13 miles). Fowler grades C for jobs and income and C− for walkability. 6% of workers work from home (California 17%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Fowler, in brief
Fowler trades workers with the towns around it
Fowler has about as many jobs (2,713) as working residents (2,678), but they are mostly different people: 2,457 residents leave for work each day while 2,492 people come in. Only 8% of the jobs in Fowler are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Fowler and Fresno trade workers both ways
Fresno is the top workplace for Fowler residents (35%) and also where the most people who work in Fowler come from (24% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Fowler are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical California worker. Time on the road ↓
Fowler makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Fowler are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Fowler residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. 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.
The figures behind Fowler’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Fowler is better than 31% of U.S. towns, #644 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Fowler’s grade up (ahead of 78% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (19.3%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Fowler could be anywhere from D to B+.
The daily commute in and out of Fowler
On a workday 2,457 residents head out to work, 221 work right here, and 2,492 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.01 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Fowler goes to work
Where Fowler clocks in
35% of workers
3% of workers
3% 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.
Each way, about 22 minutes from Fowler
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fowler workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,588 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.
A place that makes things: 42% of Fowler’s jobs are in goods
2,713 jobs are based in Fowler.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fowler, 2013 → 2023: 2,166 → 2,713. 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 Fowler’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Fowler
About 19% 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 of Fowler commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fowler is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns, #811 of 847 in California.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,739 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 10% 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 0.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 50% 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). 5.7% of Fowler households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fowler’s commuters take a bus or train.
Fowler is 2,312th of 3,091 U.S. towns of 5,400 to 10,500 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 197 | Lucas Valley-Marinwood CA | 6,473 | $201K | 4.2% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,310 | Inverness Highlands South FL | 7,449 | $61K | 8.7% | 5.2% | 1% | C |
| 2,311 | Central Township IL | 8,368 | $66K | 11.6% | 5.2% | 31% | C |
| 2,312 | Fowler CA | 7,745 | $67K | 19.3% | 7.1% | 8% | C |
| 2,313 | Girard OH | 9,384 | $53K | 20.0% | 4.9% | 7% | C |
| 2,314 | Munhall PA | 10,253 | $53K | 13.9% | 7.9% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,091 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Fowler, 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 Fowler: questions
What is the median household income in Fowler?
$66,983 (±$20,602) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fowler?
19.3%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fowler?
22 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fowler work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fresno (35%, 13 mi), Clovis (3%, 14 mi), Selma (3%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fowler walkable?
Fowler is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fowler without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fowler, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fowler
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.