About half of Johnstonville’s working residents commute to Susanville
For jobs and income Johnstonville is better than 29% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (C+). Household incomes here are higher than in 77% of U.S. towns. Only 2% work in Johnstonville; the top destination outside it is Susanville (46%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs & income in Johnstonville: the grade in detail
Household income holds Johnstonville’s grade up ($100,132, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (14.6%) is left out: Johnstonville’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, Johnstonville could be anywhere from D to B+.
The daily commute in and out of Johnstonville
On a workday 167 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 147 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 (0.88 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.
Where Johnstonville’s working residents head each day
Where Johnstonville clocks in
46% of workers
4% 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.
66% of the jobs in Johnstonville pay over $3,333 a month
151 jobs are based in Johnstonville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Johnstonville, 2013 → 2023: 293 → 151. 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 Johnstonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Johnstonville: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Johnstonville workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 314 commuters (the 15% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Johnstonville
About 44% 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.
Getting around Johnstonville: mostly by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 371 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 40% 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). 3.1% of Johnstonville households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Johnstonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Johnstonville next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400: 1,773rd of 3,133 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 13 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,771 | Holland TX | 1,188 | $63K | 18.8% | 3.0% | 5% | C |
| 1,772 | Omaha Township NE | 1,039 | $67K | 9.5% | 11.2% | 7% | C |
| 1,773 | Johnstonville CA | 1,039 | $100K | 15.9% | 14.6% | 2% | C |
| 1,774 | Banner Elk NC | 1,242 | $86K | 13.0% | 2.4% | 12% | C |
| 1,775 | Friendship ME | 1,159 | $76K | 10.0% | 0.8% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Johnstonville, 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 Johnstonville: questions
What is the median household income in Johnstonville?
$100,132 (±$14,103) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Johnstonville?
15.9%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Johnstonville?
18 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Johnstonville work?
2% work in town.
Is Johnstonville walkable?
Johnstonville is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Johnstonville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Johnstonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Johnstonville
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.