Photo: Omar Bárcena · CC BY 2.0Kingsburg has higher unemployment (7.3%) than 84% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Kingsburg C+; getting around on foot earns it B. 6% of workers work from home (California 17%). About one in seven work in Kingsburg; the top destination outside it is Fresno (20%, 22 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Kingsburg apart
Kingsburg trades workers with the towns around it
Kingsburg has about as many jobs (5,901) as working residents (5,275), but they are mostly different people: 4,443 residents leave for work each day while 5,069 people come in. Only 14% of the jobs in Kingsburg are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Kingsburg and Fresno trade workers both ways
Fresno is the top workplace for Kingsburg residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Kingsburg come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Kingsburg has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Kingsburg went from 3,895 in 2013 to 5,901 in 2023, +52%. The jobs ↓
Kingsburg makes and builds things
37% of the jobs based in Kingsburg are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Kingsburg residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Kingsburg are quick
The average trip to work takes 24 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical California worker. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Inside Kingsburg’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Kingsburg is better than 45% of U.S. towns, #546 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Kingsburg’s grade up (ahead of 72% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on household income.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Kingsburg could be anywhere from C to B+.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 4,443 residents head out to work, 832 work right here, and 5,069 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 (1.12 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 Kingsburg goes to work
Where Kingsburg clocks in
20% of workers
6% 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.
37% of the jobs in Kingsburg make or build things
5,901 jobs are based in Kingsburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kingsburg, 2013 → 2023: 3,895 → 5,901. 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 Kingsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Kingsburg: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kingsburg workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,782 commuters (the 6% 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 distance from Kingsburg to work
About 17% 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 Kingsburg walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kingsburg is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns, #641 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.2% 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 5,081 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 29% 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 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 41% 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). 9.5% of Kingsburg households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kingsburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Kingsburg next to U.S. towns of 9,000 to 18,000: 1,672nd of 2,526 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
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| 15 | Piedmont CA | 10,642 | $250K | 4.3% | 1.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Sierra Madre CA | 10,620 | $144K | 4.6% | 2.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 130 | Alamo CA | 14,488 | $250K | 2.1% | 3.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,670 | Brentwood PA | 9,597 | $69K | 19.1% | 5.0% | 4% | C+ |
| 1,671 | Port Salerno FL | 11,184 | $67K | 7.1% | 6.5% | 4% | C+ |
| 1,672 | Kingsburg CA | 13,249 | $77K | 10.8% | 7.3% | 16% | C+ |
| 1,673 | Bridgeview IL | 16,521 | $67K | 12.8% | 7.6% | 6% | C+ |
| 1,674 | Warsaw IN | 16,130 | $61K | 17.6% | 2.3% | 42% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,526 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Kingsburg, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Kingsburg and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Selma (4%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Kingsburg’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 Kingsburg: questions
What is the median household income in Kingsburg?
$76,913 (±$12,878) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kingsburg?
10.8%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kingsburg?
24 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kingsburg work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fresno (20%, 22 mi), Visalia (6%, 19 mi), Selma (4%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kingsburg walkable?
Kingsburg is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 9.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kingsburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kingsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kingsburg
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.