Photo: Amadscientist · CC BY-SA 3.0Marina has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
About one in ten work in Marina itself; outside it, Monterey draws the most (21%, 8 miles). Employers in Marina report 3,798 jobs for 8,188 working residents. Jobs and income earn Marina B−; getting around on foot earns it A.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Marina, in a few figures
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Marina
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Marina is better than 52% of U.S. towns, #489 of 847 in California. Household income holds Marina’s grade up ($95,955, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (5.9%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Marina could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Getting to work from Marina takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marina workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9,846 commuters (the 12% 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.
Who leaves Marina for work, and who comes in
On a workday 7,505 residents head out to work, 683 work right here, and 3,115 people come in from elsewhere.
About 19,000 people are in Marina on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
Where people from Marina work
Where Marina clocks in
21% of workers
13% 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.
The kinds of work in Marina
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marina, 2013 → 2023: 3,046 → 3,798. 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 Marina’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Marina, by distance
About 23% 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.
Marina is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marina is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns, #160 of 847 in California. Both inputs place Marina near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 11,152 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 52% 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). 5.7% of Marina households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Marina’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 1,712 U.S. towns of 16,000 to 31,000, Marina comes 1,123rd 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Orinda CA | 19,507 | $250K | 2.2% | 3.4% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 135 | Saratoga CA | 30,418 | $250K | 3.3% | 4.0% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 149 | Lafayette CA | 25,313 | $228K | 2.9% | 4.3% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,121 | Sapulpa OK | 23,695 | $64K | 14.2% | 3.2% | 12% | B− |
| 1,122 | Whitewater WI | 16,038 | $55K | 26.8% | 5.3% | 22% | B− |
| 1,123 | Marina CA | 23,256 | $96K | 12.2% | 5.9% | 8% | B− |
| 1,124 | Reisterstown MD | 25,582 | $86K | 10.7% | 9.0% | 5% | B− |
| 1,125 | Canyon TX | 16,518 | $70K | 13.1% | 3.1% | 25% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,712 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Marina, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Marina and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Seaside (7%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Marina’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 Marina: questions
What is the median household income in Marina?
$95,955 (±$9,890) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marina?
12.2%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marina?
24 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marina work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Monterey (21%, 8 mi), Salinas (13%, 9 mi), Seaside (7%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Marina walkable?
Marina is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 13.5 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marina without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 52% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marina, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marina
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.