Most of Hydesville commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Hydesville grades C for jobs and income and C− for walkability. 187 jobs are based in Hydesville; 395 of its residents have a job. Only 3% work in Hydesville itself; outside it, Eureka draws the most (27%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Hydesville
On income, poverty and job access, Hydesville is better than 31% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Hydesville’s grade up ($96,827, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 14% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (10.7%) is left out: Hydesville’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, Hydesville could be anywhere from D to B+.
Hydesville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 384 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 176 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Hydesville on a workday afternoon, 16% 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.
Where Hydesville’s working residents head each day
Where Hydesville clocks in
27% of workers
21% of workers
6% 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 Hydesville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hydesville, 2013 → 2023: 166 → 187. 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 Hydesville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Hydesville, about 30 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hydesville workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 301 commuters (the 20% 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.
Where in the region Hydesville works
About 15% 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 Hydesville commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hydesville is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Hydesville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 374 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). 1.4% of Hydesville households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hydesville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Hydesville ranks: 2,695th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 16 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,693 | Thornhurst Township PA | 1,014 | $72K | 11.3% | 3.5% | 1% | C |
| 2,694 | Wolcott VT | 1,672 | $70K | 9.3% | 3.7% | 2% | C |
| 2,695 | Hydesville CA | 1,263 | $97K | 17.0% | 10.7% | 3% | C |
| 2,696 | Gilbert MN | 1,644 | $65K | 8.8% | 2.2% | 6% | C |
| 2,697 | Franklin Township IN | 1,105 | $67K | 11.7% | 4.9% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Hydesville, 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 Hydesville: questions
What is the median household income in Hydesville?
$96,827 (±$34,880) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hydesville?
17.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hydesville?
30 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hydesville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eureka (27%, 17 mi), Fortuna (21%, 4 mi), Arcata (6%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hydesville walkable?
Hydesville is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hydesville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hydesville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hydesville
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.