Photo: Sharon Hahn Darlin · CC BY 2.0More people are out of work in Marysville (9.2%) than in 92% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 7% of workers; California has 17%. Marysville grades D for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 79% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Marysville, in a few figures
Marysville and Yuba City trade workers both ways
Yuba City is the top workplace for Marysville residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Marysville come from (24% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Marysville is where the jobs are
Marysville has 7,439 jobs, 1.5 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Nearly all the work in Marysville is services
92% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 2% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Most jobs in Marysville pay over $40,000 a year
72% of the jobs based in Marysville pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
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.
How Marysville earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Marysville is better than 11% of U.S. towns, #775 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Marysville’s grade up (ahead of 45% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Marysville could be anywhere from D to C−.
Where Marysville’s workers come from
Where Marysville clocks in
15% of workers
8% of workers
3% 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.
Who commutes out of Marysville, and who commutes in
On a workday 4,314 residents head out to work, 631 work right here, and 6,808 people come in from elsewhere.
About 15,000 people are in Marysville on a workday afternoon, 20% more than live here.
1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Most jobs in Marysville are in services
7,439 jobs are based in Marysville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marysville, 2014 → 2024: 6,787 → 7,439. 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 Marysville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Marysville: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marysville workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,684 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 Marysville’s workers travel
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Marysville, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marysville is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns, #486 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.5% 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 5,028 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, 88% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 3.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 76% 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). 13.2% of Marysville households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Marysville’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 9,000 to 17,000, and where Marysville sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Piedmont CA | 10,642 | $250K | 4.3% | 1.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 79 | Sierra Madre CA | 10,620 | $144K | 4.6% | 2.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 126 | Alamo CA | 14,488 | $250K | 2.1% | 3.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,225 | Lincoln City OR | 10,117 | $57K | 14.1% | 6.7% | 36% | D |
| 2,226 | Upper Township OH | 13,816 | $49K | 22.3% | 5.9% | 22% | D |
| 2,227 | Marysville CA | 12,738 | $56K | 24.5% | 9.2% | 13% | D |
| 2,228 | Olean NY | 13,508 | $51K | 26.7% | 6.3% | 37% | D |
| 2,229 | Conneaut OH | 12,247 | $62K | 19.4% | 12.5% | 25% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 2,354 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 28% | 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 Marysville, 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 Marysville: questions
What is the median household income in Marysville?
$56,430 (±$6,209) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marysville?
24.5%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marysville?
28 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marysville work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Yuba City (15%, 4 mi), Sacramento (8%, 41 mi), Roseville (3%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Marysville walkable?
Marysville is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 14.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marysville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. 88% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marysville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marysville
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.