Point Reyes Lifeboat Rescue Station, 1927 · Photo: Evan1007 · CC BY-SA 3.0Making a living in Inverness
Home is the office for 40% of workers, against 17% across California. Inverness grades C+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. About one in ten stay in Inverness for work; outside it, San Francisco is the main destination (10%, 32 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Inverness: the figures worth knowing
A lot of Inverness works from home
40% of Inverness workers work from home, against 17% across California. Time on the road ↓
Inverness’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Inverness is San Francisco, 32 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (35) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Inverness than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Inverness fell from 331 in 2013 to 235 in 2023, −29%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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 363 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Inverness
On income, poverty and job access, Inverness is better than 45% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Inverness’ grade up (4.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (10.0%) is left out: Inverness’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, Inverness could be anywhere from D to B+.
Commuting from Inverness: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Inverness workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 400 commuters (the 40% 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.
Miles to work from Inverness
About 24% 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.
Making and building: 30% of jobs based in Inverness
235 jobs are based in Inverness.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Inverness, 2013 → 2023: 331 → 235. 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 Inverness’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Inverness, and who commutes in
On a workday 328 residents head out to work, 35 work right here, and 200 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Inverness on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.65 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Inverness ends
Where Inverness clocks in
7% 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.
Most trips from Inverness start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Inverness is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 666 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 1.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 62% 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). 3.8% of Inverness households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Inverness’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800, Inverness ranks 2,148th of 5,400 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 19 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,146 | Sparta Township IL | 1,022 | $69K | 7.2% | 1.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,147 | Lempster NH | 1,162 | $87K | 7.2% | 1.7% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,148 | Inverness CA | 1,346 | $80K | 4.8% | 10.0% | 10% | C+ |
| 2,149 | Woodstock AL | 1,653 | $73K | 14.1% | 7.3% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,150 | Milesburg PA | 1,062 | $61K | 6.7% | 1.4% | <1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Inverness, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Inverness and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Point Reyes Station (7%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Inverness workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inverness | – | C+ | C− | 24 min | $80,176 |
| Point Reyes Station | 7% | — | — | 20 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Point Reyes Station: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Inverness’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 Inverness: questions
What is the median household income in Inverness?
$80,176 (±$40,471) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Inverness?
4.8%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Inverness?
24 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 40% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Inverness work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Francisco (10%, 32 mi), Point Reyes Station (7%, 2 mi), San Rafael (4%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Inverness walkable?
Inverness is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Inverness without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Inverness, from the people who make the trip.
More of Inverness
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.