Photo: Patrick Pelster · CC BY-SA 3.0Where Lemon Cove earns its living
At 29 minutes each way, commutes from Lemon Cove run about the California average. Home is the office for 7% of workers, next to 17% for California as a whole. Hardly any work in Lemon Cove itself; outside it, Visalia draws the most (29%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Lemon Cove for work, and who comes in
On a workday 109 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 114 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 (1.05 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.
Out of Lemon Cove to work: where people go
Where Lemon Cove clocks in
29% of workers
5% 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.
Lemon Cove works in goods: 33% of its jobs
114 jobs are based in Lemon Cove.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lemon Cove, 2013 → 2023: 51 → 114. 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 Lemon Cove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Lemon Cove: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lemon Cove workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 110 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.
How far it is to work from Lemon Cove
About 32% 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.
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 Lemon Cove: questions
What is the median household income in Lemon Cove?
$60,476 (±$33,140) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lemon Cove?
57.9%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lemon Cove?
29 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lemon Cove work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Visalia (29%, 17 mi), Fresno (5%, 51 mi), Exeter (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lemon Cove without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lemon Cove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lemon Cove
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.