Home Garden has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
4% of workers work from home, where California as a whole has 17%. Employers in Home Garden report 77 jobs, against 522 working residents. Home Garden grades C for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Home Garden apart on work
Home Garden and Hanford trade workers both ways
Hanford is the top workplace for Home Garden residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Home Garden come from (40% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Home Garden is a place people come home to
There are 77 jobs based in Home Garden, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Home Garden has about 1,400 people in it, 25% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Home Garden workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 17% across California. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 522 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Home Garden’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Home Garden is better than 27% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Home Garden’s grade up (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($56,384, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (13.9%) is left out: Home Garden’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, Home Garden could be anywhere from D to B.
24% of working residents work in Hanford
Where Home Garden clocks in
24% of workers
8% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Home Garden
On a workday 514 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 69 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Home Garden 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.
From Home Garden, about 28 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Home Garden workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 579 commuters (the 4% 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.
Most jobs in Home Garden are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Home Garden, 2013 → 2023: 113 → 77. 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 Home Garden’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Home Garden to work
About 26% 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 Home Garden, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Home Garden is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.3% 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 602 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 67% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 68% 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). 3.1% of Home Garden households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Home Garden’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,393rd of 5,343: where Home Garden ranks among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
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| 19 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Irwindale CA | 1,439 | $114K | 4.3% | 6.5% | 14% | A+ |
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| 71 | Del Rio CA | 1,508 | $250K | 0.0% | 2.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,391 | Adams WI | 1,431 | $69K | 10.7% | 1.3% | 3% | C |
| 3,392 | Pine AZ | 1,740 | $59K | 5.7% | 0.0% | 16% | C |
| 3,393 | Home Garden CA | 1,806 | $56K | 15.0% | 13.9% | 2% | C |
| 3,394 | Kiln MS | 2,016 | $72K | 18.2% | 5.8% | 9% | C |
| 3,395 | Prineville Lake Acres OR | 1,497 | $80K | 10.7% | 4.3% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Home Garden, the top three, the last and three more from California.
24% of Home Garden works in a town next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Home Garden workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Garden | – | C | B− | 28 min | $56,384 |
| Hanford | 24% | C | A− | 23 min | $76,461 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Hanford. Darker towns draw more of Home Garden’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 Home Garden: questions
What is the median household income in Home Garden?
$56,384 (±$15,274) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Home Garden?
15.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Home Garden?
28 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Home Garden work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hanford (24%, 2 mi), Visalia (8%, 17 mi), Fresno (5%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Home Garden walkable?
Home Garden is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 11.7 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Home Garden without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 67% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Home Garden, from the people who make the trip.
More of Home Garden
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.