Most of Meadow Vista commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Meadow Vista report 418 jobs, and 1,339 of its residents work somewhere. Meadow Vista grades A− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 77% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Meadow Vista: the figures worth knowing
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Meadow Vista
The poverty rate holds Meadow Vista’s grade up (4.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Meadow Vista could be anywhere from B− to A.
How far it is to work from Meadow Vista
About 29% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Meadow Vista
On a workday 1,277 residents head out to work, 62 work right here, and 356 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Meadow Vista on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
9% of working residents work in Sacramento
Where Meadow Vista clocks in
9% of workers
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.
Jobs in Meadow Vista: what the 418 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Meadow Vista, 2013 → 2023: 391 → 418. 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 Meadow Vista’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 31 minutes to work from Meadow Vista
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Meadow Vista workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 955 commuters (the 23% 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 in Meadow Vista is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Meadow Vista is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns, #786 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 1,248 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% 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). 0.0% of Meadow Vista households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Meadow Vista’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Meadow Vista is 957th among 4,698 U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Del Mar CA | 3,858 | $199K | 2.7% | 1.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 92 | Ross CA | 2,304 | $250K | 4.8% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 955 | Middleton Township OH | 3,244 | $87K | 6.4% | 2.0% | 1% | A− |
| 956 | Seacliff CA | 3,299 | $130K | 5.5% | 4.9% | 3% | A− |
| 957 | Meadow Vista CA | 3,162 | $101K | 4.8% | 2.4% | 5% | A− |
| 958 | Big Sky MT | 2,445 | $139K | 4.7% | 1.4% | 68% | A− |
| 959 | Forest Oaks NC | 4,293 | $108K | 20.4% | 0.0% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,698 | 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 Meadow Vista, 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 Meadow Vista: questions
What is the median household income in Meadow Vista?
$100,859 (±$3,736) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Meadow Vista?
4.8%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Meadow Vista?
31 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Meadow Vista work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (9%, 38 mi), North Auburn (8%, 5 mi), Auburn (7%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Meadow Vista walkable?
Meadow Vista is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Meadow Vista without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Meadow Vista, from the people who make the trip.
More of Meadow Vista
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.