Photo: Ryanx7 · CC BY-SA 4.0Hughson has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Working from home is the commute for 10% of workers, against 17% across California. Employers in Hughson report 1,152 jobs, and 3,018 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Hughson B−; getting around on foot earns it B−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Hughson in brief
Hughson’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hughson is better than 52% of U.S. towns, #487 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Hughson’s grade up (ahead of 71% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.9%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hughson could be anywhere from C to A.
19% of working residents work in Modesto
Where Hughson clocks in
19% of workers
10% of workers
8% 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.
Hughson by day and by night
On a workday 2,840 residents head out to work, 178 work right here, and 974 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,200 people are in Hughson on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 33% of the jobs in Hughson
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hughson, 2013 → 2023: 893 → 1,152. 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 Hughson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Hughson spends getting to work: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hughson workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,840 commuters (the 9% 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 distance from Hughson to work
About 27% 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.
Most of Hughson commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hughson is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns, #678 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% 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 3,137 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 72% 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 1.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 61% 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). 6.8% of Hughson households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hughson’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hughson next to U.S. towns of 5,600 to 10,900: 1,703rd of 3,049 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Piedmont CA | 10,642 | $250K | 4.3% | 1.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Sierra Madre CA | 10,620 | $144K | 4.6% | 2.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,701 | Somers WI | 8,171 | $80K | 8.7% | 8.4% | 3% | B− |
| 1,702 | Granby NY | 6,528 | $79K | 13.8% | 3.1% | 3% | B− |
| 1,703 | Hughson CA | 8,051 | $92K | 13.9% | 5.5% | 6% | B− |
| 1,704 | Ojai CA | 7,474 | $83K | 8.2% | 4.6% | 17% | B− |
| 1,705 | Fruitland Park FL | 9,543 | $83K | 10.4% | 3.8% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,049 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Hughson, 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 Hughson: questions
What is the median household income in Hughson?
$91,557 (±$16,090) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hughson?
13.9%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hughson?
26 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hughson work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Modesto (19%, 8 mi), Turlock (10%, 7 mi), Ceres (8%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hughson walkable?
Hughson is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 10.6 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hughson without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hughson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hughson
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.