Most of Grizzly Flats commutes out: there are 0.0 jobs for every working resident
For jobs and income Grizzly Flats is better than 60% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (D−). Employers in Grizzly Flats report 13 jobs, against 304 working residents. Home is the office for 28% of workers, against 17% across California.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Grizzly Flats, in brief
Grizzly Flats workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 57 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 437 hours of commuting, 215 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Grizzly Flats is a place people come home to
There are 13 jobs based in Grizzly Flats, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Grizzly Flats’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Grizzly Flats is Sacramento, 51 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (23) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. 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.
Grizzly Flats’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Grizzly Flats’ grade up (1.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Grizzly Flats’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Grizzly Flats could be anywhere from C to B+.
From Grizzly Flats, about 57 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 18.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grizzly Flats workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 396 commuters (the 28% 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 daily flow of workers through Grizzly Flats
On a workday 303 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Grizzly Flats on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Grizzly Flats
About 42% 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.
8% of working residents work in Sacramento
Where Grizzly Flats clocks in
8% of workers
7% 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 Grizzly Flats
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grizzly Flats, 2013 → 2023: 15 → 13. 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 Grizzly Flats’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Grizzly Flats, the car does most of the work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 547 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 0.0% of Grizzly Flats households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Grizzly Flats’ commuters take a bus or train.
1,495th of 5,877: where Grizzly Flats ranks among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 19 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,493 | Israel Township OH | 1,131 | $70K | 2.5% | 0.8% | 2% | B |
| 1,494 | Lower Tyrone Township PA | 1,028 | $75K | 6.9% | 3.3% | <1% | B |
| 1,495 | Grizzly Flats CA | 1,410 | $92K | 1.6% | 0.0% | <1% | B |
| 1,496 | Perry LA | 1,424 | $82K | 9.5% | 1.3% | 1% | B |
| 1,497 | Wheatland MT | 1,661 | $123K | 12.9% | 0.0% | 7% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Grizzly Flats, 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 Grizzly Flats: questions
What is the median household income in Grizzly Flats?
$92,004 (±$33,826) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grizzly Flats?
1.6%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grizzly Flats?
57 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grizzly Flats work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (8%, 51 mi), Placerville (7%, 16 mi), Diamond Springs (7%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Grizzly Flats walkable?
Grizzly Flats is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Grizzly Flats without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grizzly Flats, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grizzly Flats
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.