Household incomes in Maxwell are lower than in 62% of U.S. towns
8% of workers have no commute at all, against 17% across California. 20.5% of residents live below the poverty line (California 12.0%). Jobs and income earn Maxwell D; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Maxwell, in brief
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Maxwell
On income, poverty and job access, Maxwell is better than 9% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Maxwell’s grade up ($67,768, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (10.2%) is left out: Maxwell’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Maxwell could be anywhere from D− to B+.
Miles to work from Maxwell
About 45% 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.
How a workday changes Maxwell
On a workday 267 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 155 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.60 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.
Commuting out of Maxwell: the destinations
Where Maxwell clocks in
5% 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.
The 168 jobs based in Maxwell
168 jobs are based in Maxwell.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Maxwell, 2013 → 2023: 179 → 168. 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 Maxwell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Maxwell, about 27 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Maxwell workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 409 commuters (the 8% 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.
For most of Maxwell, work means a drive
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 445 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.3% of Maxwell households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Maxwell’s commuters take a bus or train.
Maxwell next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 4,110th of 4,866 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 16 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,108 | Montello WI | 1,447 | $56K | 20.0% | 3.7% | 18% | D |
| 4,109 | Taft Heights CA | 1,291 | $54K | 16.2% | 12.8% | 1% | D |
| 4,110 | Maxwell CA | 1,245 | $68K | 20.5% | 10.2% | 5% | D |
| 4,111 | Weeki Wachee Gardens FL | 1,068 | $57K | 46.0% | 31.3% | 1% | D |
| 4,112 | Cordova NC | 1,372 | $61K | 46.7% | 27.7% | 4% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Maxwell, 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 Maxwell: questions
What is the median household income in Maxwell?
$67,768 (±$41,957) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Maxwell?
20.5%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Maxwell?
27 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Maxwell work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Colusa (8%, 11 mi), Willows (5%, 16 mi), Chico (5%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Maxwell walkable?
Maxwell is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Maxwell without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Maxwell, from the people who make the trip.
More of Maxwell
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.