Few U.S. towns have unemployment as high as Mayfair’s 14.7%
Home is the office for 6% of workers; California has 17%. Mayfair grades C for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Hardly any work in Mayfair; the top destination outside it is Fresno (54%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Mayfair
Mayfair and Fresno trade workers both ways
Fresno is the top workplace for Mayfair residents (54%) and also where the most people who work in Mayfair come from (54% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Mayfair is a place people come home to
There are 126 jobs based in Mayfair, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mayfair has about 3,400 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Mayfair are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical California worker. Time on the road ↓
Most Mayfair residents work close to home
68% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Inside Mayfair’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mayfair is better than 27% of U.S. towns, #672 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Mayfair’s grade up (ahead of 87% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mayfair could be anywhere from C− to C+.
Commuting out of Mayfair: the destinations
Where Mayfair clocks in
54% of workers
8% of workers
2% 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.
Mayfair on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,727 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 115 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,400 people are in Mayfair on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than live here.
0.07 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.
About 19 minutes to work from Mayfair
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mayfair workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,828 commuters (the 6% 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 commute from Mayfair, by distance
About 20% 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.
The kinds of work in Mayfair
126 jobs are based in Mayfair.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mayfair, 2013 → 2023: 61 → 126. 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 Mayfair’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Mayfair walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mayfair is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns, #487 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.0% 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 1,942 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, 20% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 5.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 84% 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). 12.0% of Mayfair households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Mayfair’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Mayfair is 2,887th of 3,758 U.S. towns of 3,500 to 6,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Del Mar CA | 3,858 | $199K | 2.7% | 1.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 72 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,885 | Fairfield Township NJ | 5,440 | $61K | 10.3% | 9.2% | 5% | C |
| 2,886 | Maine NY | 5,001 | $69K | 11.6% | 7.6% | 5% | C |
| 2,887 | Mayfair CA | 5,044 | $62K | 18.9% | 14.7% | 1% | C |
| 2,888 | Wauchula FL | 4,946 | $53K | 38.1% | 0.2% | 18% | C |
| 2,889 | Mora MN | 3,763 | $53K | 16.6% | 2.6% | 34% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,758 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Mayfair, 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 Mayfair: questions
What is the median household income in Mayfair?
$62,191 (±$7,907) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mayfair?
18.9%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mayfair?
19 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mayfair work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fresno (54%, 2 mi), Clovis (8%, 6 mi), Visalia (2%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mayfair walkable?
Mayfair is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 11.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mayfair without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. 20% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mayfair, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mayfair
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.