Most of Knights Landing commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Household incomes here are lower than in 88% of U.S. towns. 70 jobs are based in Knights Landing, against 313 working residents. Jobs and income earn Knights Landing D; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Knights Landing apart on work
Knights Landing and Woodland trade workers both ways
Woodland is the top workplace for Knights Landing residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Knights Landing come from (34% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Knights Landing is a place people come home to
There are 70 jobs based in Knights Landing, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Knights Landing workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical 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; with 313 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Knights Landing’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Knights Landing is better than 13% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Knights Landing’s grade up (ahead of 30% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($49,458, U.S. $80,734).
15% of Knights Landing’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (15% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 15.2%, against 12.8% for all residents. Unemployment (22.9%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Household income is not adjusted: student households count in the median.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Knights Landing could be anywhere from D− to B−.
18% of working residents work in Woodland
Where Knights Landing clocks in
6% 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.
Who leaves Knights Landing for work, and who comes in
On a workday 311 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 68 people come in from elsewhere.
About 860 people are in Knights Landing on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer 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.
Time on the road from Knights Landing: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Knights Landing workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 348 commuters (the 14% 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.
50% of the jobs in Knights Landing make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Knights Landing, 2013 → 2023: 132 → 70. 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 Knights Landing’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Knights Landing
About 27% 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.
For most of Knights Landing, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Knights Landing is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Knights Landing 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 403 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 20% 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). 8.4% of Knights Landing households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Knights Landing’s commuters take a bus or train.
Knights Landing is 2,922nd of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 15 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,920 | Iola WI | 1,210 | $45K | 13.7% | 4.2% | 12% | D |
| 2,921 | Martinsville Township IL | 1,486 | $67K | 19.3% | 3.6% | 7% | D |
| 2,922 | Knights Landing CA | 1,099 | $49K | 12.8% | 22.9% | 1% | D |
| 2,923 | Villisca IA | 1,099 | $60K | 13.5% | 0.9% | 7% | D |
| 2,924 | Jeffersonville OH | 1,246 | $46K | 36.0% | 3.4% | 5% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Knights Landing, 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.
- Students. 15% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Knights Landing: questions
What is the median household income in Knights Landing?
$49,458 (±$29,154) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Knights Landing?
12.8% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 15.2%. California: 12.0%.
How long is the commute from Knights Landing?
34 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Knights Landing work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Woodland (18%, 9 mi), Sacramento (6%, 21 mi), Roseville (3%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Knights Landing walkable?
Knights Landing is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Knights Landing without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Knights Landing, from the people who make the trip.
More of Knights Landing
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.