Households in Monument Hills earn more than in almost any other U.S. town
Household incomes here are among the highest in the country. 3.6% of residents are in poverty, where California as a whole has 12.0%. The two grades for Monument Hills are A for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Monument Hills: the gist
Monument Hills and Woodland trade workers both ways
Woodland is the top workplace for Monument Hills residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Monument Hills come from (25% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Monument Hills are quick
The average trip to work takes 24 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical California worker. 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 736 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Monument Hills earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Monument Hills is better than 95% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($218,333, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 62% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Monument Hills’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Monument Hills could be anywhere from A to A+.
24% of working residents work in Woodland
Where Monument Hills clocks in
11% of workers
6% 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.
Monument Hills’ commute takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Monument Hills workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 659 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 many people are in Monument Hills by day
On a workday 720 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 238 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Monument Hills on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer than live here.
0.35 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.
Inside Monument Hills’ 254 jobs
254 jobs are based in Monument Hills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Monument Hills, 2013 → 2023: 171 → 254. 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 Monument Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Monument Hills’ commute, mile by mile
About 17% 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.
Monument Hills is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Monument Hills is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Monument Hills near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 706 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 4.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 80% 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). 3.6% of Monument Hills households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Monument Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Monument Hills ranks: 185th of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Irwindale CA | 1,439 | $114K | 4.3% | 6.5% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 183 | Center Township OH | 1,161 | $108K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A |
| 184 | Wall Lake Township SD | 1,210 | $129K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3% | A |
| 185 | Monument Hills CA | 1,551 | $218K | 3.6% | 1.7% | 2% | A |
| 186 | Belleair Beach FL | 1,581 | $164K | 5.9% | 3.6% | 3% | A |
| 187 | Yutan NE | 1,451 | $103K | 0.7% | 8.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Monument Hills, 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 Monument Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Monument Hills?
$218,333 (±$34,780) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Monument Hills?
3.6%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Monument Hills?
24 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Monument Hills work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Woodland (24%, 7 mi), Sacramento (11%, 23 mi), Davis (6%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Monument Hills walkable?
Monument Hills is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Monument Hills without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Monument Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Monument Hills
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.