Lake Don Pedro has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
The two grades for Lake Don Pedro are B for jobs and income and D− for walkability. There are 85 jobs in Lake Don Pedro, and 873 of its residents work somewhere. Home is the office for 7% of workers, against 17% across California.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Lake Don Pedro
Lake Don Pedro workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 62 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 475 hours of commuting, 253 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
56% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Lake Don Pedro is a place people come home to
There are 85 jobs based in Lake Don Pedro, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Lake Don Pedro has about 520 people in it, 60% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 873 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Lake Don Pedro’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lake Don Pedro is better than 57% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lake Don Pedro’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (6.4%) is left out: Lake Don Pedro’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Lake Don Pedro could be anywhere from C to B+.
Commuting from Lake Don Pedro: about 62 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 19.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lake Don Pedro workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 602 commuters (the 7% 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.
Miles to work from Lake Don Pedro
About 56% 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.
Who works in Lake Don Pedro, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 852 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 64 people come in from elsewhere.
About 520 people are in Lake Don Pedro on a workday afternoon, 60% 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.
6% of working residents work in Modesto
Where Lake Don Pedro clocks in
6% 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.
What Lake Don Pedro’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lake Don Pedro, 2013 → 2023: 38 → 85. 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 Lake Don Pedro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most of Lake Don Pedro commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lake Don Pedro is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Lake Don Pedro 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 647 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). 6.7% of Lake Don Pedro households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lake Don Pedro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lake Don Pedro next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800: 1,545th of 5,400 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 19 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,543 | Jackson Township IN | 1,180 | $61K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,544 | Township 5 NE | 1,228 | $90K | 10.2% | 1.9% | 1% | B |
| 1,545 | Lake Don Pedro CA | 1,308 | $85K | 0.0% | 6.4% | 2% | B |
| 1,546 | Archie MO | 1,305 | $69K | 5.1% | 1.0% | 5% | B |
| 1,547 | Watertown TN | 1,691 | $68K | 7.3% | 5.5% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Lake Don Pedro, 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 Lake Don Pedro: questions
What is the median household income in Lake Don Pedro?
$85,104 (±$52,781) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lake Don Pedro?
0.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lake Don Pedro?
62 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lake Don Pedro work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Modesto (6%, 35 mi), Fresno (4%, 67 mi), San Jose (3%, 83 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lake Don Pedro walkable?
Lake Don Pedro is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lake Don Pedro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lake Don Pedro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lake Don Pedro
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.