Integratron · Photo: Max Ronnersjö · CC BY-SA 3.0Homestead Valley’s household incomes are lower than in 93% of U.S. towns
32% of workers have no commute at all, next to 17% for California as a whole. Below the poverty line: 28.0% of residents, next to 12.0% across California. The two grades for Homestead Valley are D− for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Homestead Valley: the figures worth knowing
A big share show a job far from home
75% 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 ↓
Homestead Valley’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Homestead Valley is Los Angeles, 116 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (135) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Homestead Valley is a place people come home to
There are 170 jobs based in Homestead Valley, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Homestead Valley has about 1,300 people in it, 53% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Home offices are common in Homestead Valley
32% of Homestead Valley workers work from home, against 17% across California. Time on the road ↓
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.
Jobs & income in Homestead Valley: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Homestead Valley is near the bottom of U.S. towns, #844 of 847 in California. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Homestead Valley’s grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Homestead Valley could be anywhere from D− to D.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Homestead Valley
About 75% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The workday shuffle in and out of Homestead Valley
On a workday 1,542 residents head out to work, 50 work right here, and 120 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Homestead Valley on a workday afternoon, 53% fewer than live here.
0.11 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Time on the road from Homestead Valley: about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Homestead Valley workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 671 commuters (the 31% 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.
8% of working residents work in Los Angeles
Where Homestead Valley clocks in
5% of workers
3% 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 Homestead Valley: what the 170 are
170 jobs are based in Homestead Valley.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Homestead Valley, 2014 → 2024: 130 → 170. 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 Homestead Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Homestead Valley, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Homestead Valley is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns, #659 of 847 in California. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 979 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). 2.5% of Homestead Valley households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Homestead Valley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Homestead Valley sits among U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Ross CA | 2,304 | $250K | 4.8% | 0.7% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 107 | Fairbanks Ranch CA | 2,703 | $250K | 5.5% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,767 | Licking MO | 2,958 | $36K | 37.5% | 20.4% | 17% | D− |
| 4,768 | Allendale SC | 2,427 | $24K | 45.1% | 2.3% | 9% | D− |
| 4,769 | Homestead Valley CA | 2,689 | $45K | 28.0% | 11.5% | 3% | D− |
| 4,770 | Livingston AL | 3,242 | $24K | 27.8% | 20.6% | 28% | D− |
| 4,771 | Dermott AR | 2,412 | $27K | 31.7% | 17.9% | 16% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 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 Homestead Valley, 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 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 Homestead Valley: questions
What is the median household income in Homestead Valley?
$45,323 (±$6,717) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Homestead Valley?
28.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Homestead Valley?
33 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 32% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Homestead Valley work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Los Angeles (8%, 116 mi), Yucca Valley (5%, 10 mi), Riverside (3%, 61 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Homestead Valley walkable?
Homestead Valley is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Homestead Valley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Homestead Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Homestead Valley
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.