At 1.4%, unemployment in Meyers is lower than in 91% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 35% of workers, where California as a whole has 17%. The two grades for Meyers are B+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 3% work in Meyers; the top destination outside it is South Lake Tahoe (33%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Meyers and work: the main findings
Meyers and South Lake Tahoe trade workers both ways
South Lake Tahoe is the top workplace for Meyers residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Meyers come from (26% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
40% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
A lot of Meyers works from home
35% of Meyers workers work from home, against 17% across California. Time on the road ↓
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; with 977 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Meyers’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Meyers is better than 69% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Meyers’ grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Meyers could be anywhere from C to A.
Out of Meyers to work: where people go
Where Meyers clocks in
33% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Meyers
About 40% 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.
From Meyers, 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 Meyers workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 741 commuters (the 35% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Meyers
On a workday 947 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 271 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Meyers on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.
0.31 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.
Goods jobs make up 29% of work in Meyers
301 jobs are based in Meyers.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Meyers, 2013 → 2023: 139 → 301. 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 Meyers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Meyers is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Meyers is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,136 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). 0.7% of Meyers households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Meyers’ commuters take a bus or train.
Meyers is 1,225th of 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 68 | Irwindale CA | 1,439 | $114K | 4.3% | 6.5% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,223 | Litchfield NY | 1,428 | $88K | 5.5% | 4.4% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,224 | Clearfield Township PA | 1,569 | $88K | 2.4% | 1.6% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,225 | Meyers CA | 1,995 | $96K | 5.5% | 1.4% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,226 | Omao HI | 1,528 | $102K | 3.1% | 7.6% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,227 | Walnut Grove GA | 1,735 | $83K | 9.7% | 3.2% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Meyers, 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 Meyers: questions
What is the median household income in Meyers?
$96,354 (±$33,373) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Meyers?
5.5%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Meyers?
27 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 35% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Meyers work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are South Lake Tahoe (33%, 7 mi), Sacramento (7%, 80 mi), Stateline (3%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Meyers walkable?
Meyers is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Meyers without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Meyers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Meyers
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.