Home Gardens has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 4.0 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 4.3 in Riverside. Employers in Home Gardens report 1,515 jobs; 5,263 of its residents have a job. Home Gardens grades A− for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Home Gardens, in a few figures
Home Gardens workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 37 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 284 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Home Gardens is a place people come home to
There are 1,515 jobs based in Home Gardens, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Home Gardens has about 6,800 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Why Home Gardens gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Home Gardens is better than 76% of U.S. towns, #215 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Home Gardens’ grade up (ahead of 91% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (5.4%, 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, Home Gardens could be anywhere from B to A.
About 37 minutes each way for Home Gardens’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Home Gardens workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,620 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.
Home Gardens by day and by night
On a workday 5,198 residents head out to work, 65 work right here, and 1,450 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,800 people are in Home Gardens on a workday afternoon, 36% 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 2024, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Corona
Where Home Gardens clocks in
13% of workers
10% of workers
4% 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.
Goods, not services: 32% of the jobs in Home Gardens
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Home Gardens, 2014 → 2024: 1,188 → 1,515. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Home Gardens’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Home Gardens works
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Home Gardens, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Home Gardens is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns, #347 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.3% 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 4,904 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 90% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 15% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 80% 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). 1.7% of Home Gardens households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Home Gardens’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000, Home Gardens ranks 947th of 2,878 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 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
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| 15 | Piedmont CA | 10,642 | $250K | 4.3% | 1.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 89 | Sierra Madre CA | 10,620 | $144K | 4.6% | 2.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 945 | Perkins Township OH | 12,302 | $77K | 5.7% | 2.0% | 18% | A− |
| 946 | Lower Swatara Township PA | 10,043 | $87K | 9.0% | 3.1% | 9% | A− |
| 947 | Home Gardens CA | 10,506 | $96K | 6.2% | 5.4% | 1% | A− |
| 948 | Pasadena Hills FL | 13,505 | $85K | 4.3% | 3.3% | 1% | A− |
| 949 | Pella IA | 10,992 | $84K | 6.0% | 1.1% | 39% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Gardens, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Home Gardens and its neighbors: 23% work next door
The biggest share goes to Corona (13%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Home Gardens workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Gardens | – | A− | A− | 37 min | $96,342 |
| Corona | 13% | B+ | B+ | 34 min | $109,242 |
| El Sobrante | under 3% | A | C+ | 37 min | $165,682 |
| Riverside | 10% | B | A | 31 min | $91,045 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Home Gardens’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 2024, 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 Gardens: questions
What is the median household income in Home Gardens?
$96,342 (±$10,042) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Home Gardens?
6.2%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Home Gardens?
37 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Home Gardens work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corona (13%, 3 mi), Riverside (10%, 8 mi), Irvine (4%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Home Gardens walkable?
Home Gardens is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 12.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Home Gardens without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 15% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Home Gardens, from the people who make the trip.
More of Home Gardens
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.