Lexington Hills has some of the highest household incomes of any U.S. town
Poverty touches 3.3% of residents, against 12.0% across California. Household incomes here are among the highest in the country. The two grades for Lexington Hills are A+ for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Lexington Hills stands out on work
Lexington Hills is a place people come home to
There are 100 jobs based in Lexington Hills, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Lexington Hills has about 1,800 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Lexington Hills and San Jose trade workers both ways
San Jose is the top workplace for Lexington Hills residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Lexington Hills come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Three in four Lexington Hills workers earn over $40,000 a year
78% of Lexington Hills’ working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Home offices are common in Lexington Hills
25% of Lexington Hills workers work from home, against 17% across California. Time on the road ↓
Lexington Hills 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Income, poverty and work: Lexington Hills’ grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lexington Hills is better than 96% of U.S. towns, #15 of 847 in California. Household income is its strongest input ($248,750, U.S. $80,734); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.1%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lexington Hills could be anywhere from A− to A+.
Lexington Hills on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,017 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 87 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Lexington Hills on a workday afternoon, 35% fewer than live here.
0.10 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 2024, primary jobs.
25% of working residents work in San Jose
Where Lexington Hills clocks in
25% of workers
6% 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.
A place that makes things: 29% of Lexington Hills’ jobs are in goods
100 jobs are based in Lexington Hills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lexington Hills, 2014 → 2024: 114 → 100. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lexington Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Lexington Hills takes about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lexington Hills workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,238 commuters (the 25% 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.
Half of Lexington Hills commutes less than 16 miles
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Lexington Hills, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lexington Hills is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns, #664 of 847 in California. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,654 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). 2.5% of Lexington Hills households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Lexington Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600, Lexington Hills ranks 142nd of 4,797 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Ross CA | 2,304 | $250K | 4.8% | 0.7% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 107 | Fairbanks Ranch CA | 2,703 | $250K | 5.5% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 140 | Salford Township PA | 3,086 | $126K | 6.7% | 0.8% | 4% | A+ |
| 141 | Milton WI | 3,129 | $107K | 2.1% | 1.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 142 | Lexington Hills CA | 2,692 | $249K | 3.3% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 143 | Acres Green CO | 2,639 | $142K | 8.0% | 1.0% | <1% | A+ |
| 144 | Long Lake MN | 1,944 | $109K | 5.5% | 1.5% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 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 Lexington Hills, 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 2024, 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 Lexington Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Lexington Hills?
$248,750 (±$23,669) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lexington Hills?
3.3%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lexington Hills?
34 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lexington Hills work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Jose (25%, 14 mi), San Francisco (7%, 49 mi), Los Gatos (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Lexington Hills walkable?
Lexington Hills is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lexington Hills without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lexington Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lexington Hills
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.