Most of Madison commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
For 0% of workers, the job is at home, against 17% across California. Madison has 27 jobs, against 190 working residents. Hardly any work in Madison itself; outside it, Woodland draws the most (10%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Madison by day and by night
On a workday 189 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 26 people come in from elsewhere.
About 640 people are in Madison on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
The towns that employ Madison’s residents
Where Madison clocks in
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 Madison’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Madison, 2013 → 2023: 17 → 27. 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 Madison’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 18 minutes to work from Madison
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Madison workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 223 commuters (the 0% 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.
The distance from Madison to work
About 24% 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 Madison: questions
What is the poverty rate in Madison?
37.8%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Madison?
18 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Madison work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Woodland (10%, 12 mi), Esparto (10%, 3 mi), Sacramento (7%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Madison without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Madison, from the people who make the trip.
More of Madison
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.