Photo: Slof · Public domainUnemployment in Ione (6.0%) is higher than in 74% of U.S. towns
Only 7% work in Ione; the top destination outside it is Sacramento (7%, 32 miles). For jobs and income Ione is better than 39% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (B). 8% of workers have no commute at all; California has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Ione apart
Ione trades workers with the towns around it
Ione has about as many jobs (2,496) as working residents (2,441), but they are mostly different people: 2,265 residents leave for work each day while 2,320 people come in. Only 7% of the jobs in Ione are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Ione has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Ione went from 1,437 in 2013 to 2,496 in 2023, +74%. The jobs ↓
No single place dominates Ione’s commute
The biggest draw, Sacramento, gets only 7% of working residents, and 62% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Ione residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
The jobs in Ione pay better than its residents’ jobs
88% of the jobs based in Ione pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 65% of the jobs Ione residents hold. 93% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Ione. The jobs ↓
Nearly all the work in Ione is services
94% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 2% are in factories, building or farms. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Why Ione gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Household income holds Ione’s grade up ($91,495, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Ione could be anywhere from D to A−.
Who leaves Ione for work, and who comes in
On a workday 2,265 residents head out to work, 176 work right here, and 2,320 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.02 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Ione
2,496 jobs are based in Ione.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ione, 2013 → 2023: 1,437 → 2,496. 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 Ione’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting out of Ione: the destinations
Where Ione clocks in
7% 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.
About 28 minutes each way for Ione’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ione workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,367 commuters (the 8% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Ione
About 33% 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.
Few in Ione walk, bike or ride to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.8% 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 2,571 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 83% 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 0.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 57% 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). 8.9% of Ione households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ione’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ione places 1,953rd of 2,841 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 6,500 to 12,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Piedmont CA | 10,642 | $250K | 4.3% | 1.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 98 | Sierra Madre CA | 10,620 | $144K | 4.6% | 2.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,951 | Livingston MT | 9,290 | $66K | 13.7% | 1.9% | 37% | C+ |
| 1,952 | Marshfield MO | 8,078 | $68K | 18.1% | 3.4% | 23% | C+ |
| 1,953 | Ione CA | 9,282 | $91K | 8.1% | 6.0% | 7% | C+ |
| 1,954 | Warren PA | 9,046 | $54K | 9.9% | 3.1% | 42% | C+ |
| 1,955 | Byron GA | 6,567 | $86K | 10.1% | 9.4% | 8% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,841 | 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 Ione, 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 Ione: questions
What is the median household income in Ione?
$91,495 (±$25,665) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ione?
8.1%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ione?
28 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ione work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (7%, 32 mi), Jackson (6%, 10 mi), Martell (3%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ione walkable?
Ione is more walkable than 57% 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 Ione without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ione, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ione
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.