Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0More people are out of work in Lemoore (13.1%) than in 98% of U.S. towns
For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 1.9 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 17.5 in Los Angeles. Lemoore grades C for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Home is the office for 3% of workers, against 17% across California.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Lemoore
Commutes from Lemoore are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical California worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Lemoore workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 17% across California. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Lemoore makes and builds things
41% of the jobs based in Lemoore are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Lemoore residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
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.
The figures behind Lemoore’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lemoore is better than 29% of U.S. towns, #662 of 847 in California. Household income holds Lemoore’s grade up ($83,724, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lemoore could be anywhere from C− to C+.
From Lemoore, about 21 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lemoore workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 11,062 commuters (the 3% 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.
Lemoore makes things: 41% of its jobs are in goods
5,319 jobs are based in Lemoore.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lemoore, 2013 → 2023: 4,229 → 5,319. 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 Lemoore’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Lemoore, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 8,152 residents head out to work, 1,452 work right here, and 3,867 people come in from elsewhere.
About 23,000 people are in Lemoore on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.55 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
12% of working residents work in Hanford
Where Lemoore clocks in
12% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
How far it is to work from Lemoore
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Lemoore
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lemoore is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns, #401 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.7% 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 11,424 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 92% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 32% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 67% 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). 2.7% of Lemoore households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Lemoore’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 19,000 to 37,000, Lemoore ranks 1,287th of 1,509 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Orinda CA | 19,507 | $250K | 2.2% | 3.4% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 96 | Manhattan Beach CA | 33,122 | $204K | 4.5% | 3.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 110 | Saratoga CA | 30,418 | $250K | 3.3% | 4.0% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,285 | Martinsburg WV | 19,211 | $60K | 19.8% | 5.2% | 18% | C |
| 1,286 | East Hemet CA | 20,257 | $82K | 18.8% | 7.6% | 4% | C |
| 1,287 | Lemoore CA | 27,291 | $84K | 15.1% | 13.1% | 15% | C |
| 1,288 | Gardner MA | 21,483 | $68K | 13.7% | 7.0% | 18% | C |
| 1,289 | Shelby NC | 23,309 | $48K | 17.6% | 3.6% | 23% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 1,509 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 Lemoore, 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 Lemoore: questions
What is the median household income in Lemoore?
$83,724 (±$5,138) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lemoore?
15.1%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lemoore?
21 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lemoore work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hanford (12%, 8 mi), Fresno (6%, 34 mi), Visalia (5%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lemoore walkable?
Lemoore is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 12.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lemoore without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 32% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lemoore, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lemoore
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.