Photo: Jsmithwikigt · CC BY 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Grand Terrace works elsewhere
Employers in Grand Terrace report 2,397 jobs, against 6,121 working residents. Jobs and income earn Grand Terrace B; getting around on foot earns it B+. Only 3% stay in Grand Terrace for work; outside it, San Bernardino is the main destination (11%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs & income in Grand Terrace: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Grand Terrace is better than 64% of U.S. towns, #373 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Grand Terrace’s grade up (ahead of 92% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Grand Terrace could be anywhere from B− to A.
Who leaves Grand Terrace for work, and who comes in
On a workday 5,947 residents head out to work, 174 work right here, and 2,223 people come in from elsewhere.
About 9,200 people are in Grand Terrace on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Commuting out of Grand Terrace: the destinations
Where Grand Terrace clocks in
11% of workers
10% 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.
The kinds of work in Grand Terrace
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grand Terrace, 2013 → 2023: 1,966 → 2,397. 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 Grand Terrace’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 26 minutes in Grand Terrace
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grand Terrace workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,230 commuters (the 11% 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.
Where in the region Grand Terrace works
About 15% 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.
For most of Grand Terrace, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Grand Terrace is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns, #560 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.8% 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 5,866 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 65% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 5% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 60% 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). 4.6% of Grand Terrace households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Grand Terrace’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 9,000 to 17,000, Grand Terrace ranks 1,149th of 2,354 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
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| 15 | Piedmont CA | 10,642 | $250K | 4.3% | 1.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 79 | Sierra Madre CA | 10,620 | $144K | 4.6% | 2.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 126 | Alamo CA | 14,488 | $250K | 2.1% | 3.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,147 | Incline Village NV | 9,272 | $167K | 6.0% | 3.9% | 41% | B |
| 1,148 | Triangle VA | 10,450 | $110K | 7.6% | 9.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,149 | Grand Terrace CA | 12,936 | $84K | 7.5% | 6.7% | 3% | B |
| 1,150 | Alcoa TN | 13,689 | $66K | 12.9% | 2.0% | 15% | B |
| 1,151 | Taylor Township IN | 9,436 | $72K | 10.6% | 2.2% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,354 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Grand Terrace, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Work in the towns next to Grand Terrace
The biggest share goes to Colton (4%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Grand Terrace workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Terrace | – | B | B+ | 26 min | $83,628 |
| Colton | 4% | C+ | A− | 28 min | $71,208 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Grand Terrace’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Grand Terrace: questions
What is the median household income in Grand Terrace?
$83,628 (±$7,326) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grand Terrace?
7.5%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grand Terrace?
26 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grand Terrace work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Bernardino (11%, 8 mi), Riverside (10%, 8 mi), Loma Linda (5%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Grand Terrace walkable?
Grand Terrace is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 10.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Grand Terrace without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 5% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grand Terrace, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grand Terrace
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.