John Ohm House · Photo: Michael Aivaliotis · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Grayson works elsewhere
For 8% of workers, the job is at home, where California as a whole has 17%. 10 jobs are based in Grayson for 304 working residents. Grayson grades B for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Grayson at work: what stands out
Grayson is a place people come home to
There are 10 jobs based in Grayson, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Grayson has about 890 people in it, 25% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Grayson workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 41 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 314 hours of commuting, 92 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 304 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Grayson’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Grayson is better than 59% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Grayson’s grade up (7.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 42% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: Grayson’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, Grayson could be anywhere from D to A.
Grayson quiets down on a workday
On a workday 304 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Grayson on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Getting to work from Grayson takes about 41 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grayson workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 640 commuters (the 8% 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 many miles Grayson commutes
About 30% 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.
12% of working residents work in Patterson
Where Grayson clocks in
12% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
Jobs in Grayson: what the 10 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grayson, 2013 → 2023: 20 → 10. 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 Grayson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Grayson is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Grayson is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 692 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 3.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 75% 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). 12.8% of Grayson households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Grayson’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600, Grayson comes 1,090th 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 15 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,088 | Brothertown WI | 1,282 | $72K | 7.1% | 1.0% | 6% | B |
| 1,089 | Scott WI | 1,371 | $88K | 7.3% | 6.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,090 | Grayson CA | 1,182 | $82K | 7.0% | 2.1% | 0% | B |
| 1,091 | Cornwall CT | 1,589 | $129K | 8.2% | 6.5% | 14% | B |
| 1,092 | Saluda Township IN | 1,383 | $78K | 3.0% | 7.0% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Grayson, 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 Grayson: questions
What is the median household income in Grayson?
$81,635 (±$52,406) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grayson?
7.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grayson?
41 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grayson work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Patterson (12%, 6 mi), Tracy (6%, 19 mi), Modesto (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Grayson walkable?
Grayson is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Grayson without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grayson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grayson
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.