Photo: David Jordan · CC BY-SA 3.0Kenwood draws 437 commuters a day, with 1.8 jobs for every working resident
Kenwood grades A− for jobs and income and A+ for walkability. 446 jobs are based in Kenwood, against 251 working residents. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 0.7 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 1.0 in Santa Rosa.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Kenwood: the gist
Kenwood workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 54 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 414 hours of commuting, 192 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Kenwood and Santa Rosa trade workers both ways
Santa Rosa is the top workplace for Kenwood residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Kenwood come from (28% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A lot of Kenwood works from home
36% of Kenwood workers work from home, against 17% across California. Time on the road ↓
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 251 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Kenwood gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Kenwood is better than 76% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($99,526, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 56% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Kenwood’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, Kenwood could be anywhere from C to A.
A commute of about 54 minutes in Kenwood
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 17.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kenwood workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 285 commuters (the 36% 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 daily trip into Kenwood
Where Kenwood clocks in
15% of workers
7% 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.
How many people are in Kenwood by day
On a workday 242 residents head out to work and 9 work right here.
About 1,200 people are in Kenwood on a workday afternoon, 19% more 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.
A place that makes things: 46% of Kenwood’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kenwood, 2013 → 2023: 515 → 446. 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 Kenwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Kenwood commutes less than 15 miles
About 25% 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.
Kenwood is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kenwood is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Kenwood 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 443 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 80% 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 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% 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). 0.0% of Kenwood households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Kenwood’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Kenwood ranks 356th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 354 | Miami Township IN | 1,312 | $100K | 3.5% | 5.3% | 3% | A− |
| 355 | Blackhoof Township MN | 1,016 | $105K | 4.1% | 1.4% | 0% | A− |
| 356 | Kenwood CA | 1,028 | $100K | 6.7% | 0.0% | 4% | A− |
| 357 | Green Valley CA | 1,364 | $142K | 9.2% | 2.9% | 0% | A− |
| 358 | Robie Creek ID | 1,213 | $106K | 2.5% | 3.2% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Kenwood, 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 Kenwood: questions
What is the median household income in Kenwood?
$99,526 (±$47,076) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kenwood?
6.7%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kenwood?
54 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 36% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kenwood work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Santa Rosa (15%, 9 mi), Sonoma (7%, 10 mi), San Francisco (4%, 45 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kenwood walkable?
Kenwood is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 11.7 out of 20, and 13% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kenwood without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kenwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kenwood
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.