Lakeview has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
395 jobs are based in Lakeview; 749 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Lakeview is better than 25% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (D−). Measured by household income, Lakeview is behind 75% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Lakeview at work: what stands out
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Lakeview
Job access by car holds Lakeview’s grade up (ahead of 70% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (31.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (5.6%) is left out: Lakeview’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, Lakeview could be anywhere from D to B+.
About 53 minutes each way for Lakeview’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 16.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lakeview workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 491 commuters (the 21% 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.
Lakeview quiets down on a workday
On a workday 713 residents head out to work, 36 work right here, and 359 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Lakeview on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
9% of working residents work in Riverside
Where Lakeview clocks in
9% 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.
What Lakeview’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lakeview, 2013 → 2023: 454 → 395. 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 Lakeview’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Lakeview
About 22% 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 Lakeview: mostly by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 623 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). 10.2% of Lakeview households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lakeview’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Lakeview ranks: 3,951st of 5,793 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 68 | Irwindale CA | 1,439 | $114K | 4.3% | 6.5% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,949 | Williamsfield Township OH | 1,430 | $65K | 10.9% | 2.0% | 1% | C |
| 3,950 | Harrison Township OH | 1,511 | $60K | 14.5% | 4.6% | 3% | C |
| 3,951 | Lakeview CA | 2,062 | $59K | 31.8% | 5.6% | 5% | C |
| 3,952 | Clinton WA | 1,419 | $76K | 10.9% | 3.6% | 4% | C |
| 3,953 | Washington Park IL | 2,461 | $39K | 35.2% | 19.9% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,793 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Lakeview, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Lakeview and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Lakeview’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 Lakeview: questions
What is the median household income in Lakeview?
$59,375 (±$54,102) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lakeview?
31.8%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lakeview?
53 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lakeview work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Riverside (9%, 17 mi), Perris (7%, 6 mi), Los Angeles (5%, 75 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lakeview walkable?
Lakeview is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lakeview 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 Lakeview, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lakeview
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.