Newcastle Portuguese Hall · Photo: T71024 · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Newcastle top those of 83% of U.S. towns
For 7% of workers, the job is at home (California 17%). The poverty rate is 12.4%, where California as a whole has 12.0%. Newcastle grades B+ for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Newcastle, in a few figures
Newcastle’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Newcastle is Sacramento, 28 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (67) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Newcastle makes and builds things
46% of the jobs based in Newcastle are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Newcastle residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 16%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Newcastle are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 69 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 545 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Newcastle’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Newcastle is better than 70% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Newcastle’s grade up ($108,750, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down. It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Newcastle’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, Newcastle could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Newcastle
About 26% 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.
Making and building: 46% of jobs based in Newcastle
470 jobs are based in Newcastle.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Newcastle, 2013 → 2023: 426 → 470. 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 Newcastle’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 20 minutes in Newcastle
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Newcastle workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 551 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.
The daily flow of workers through Newcastle
On a workday 539 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 464 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
12% of working residents work in Sacramento
Where Newcastle clocks in
12% of workers
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.
Most of Newcastle commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Newcastle is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Newcastle 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 593 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 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 57% 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). 5.3% of Newcastle households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Newcastle’s commuters take a bus or train.
Newcastle is 1,084th of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100 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 | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,082 | Farmington WI | 1,398 | $88K | 8.6% | 3.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,083 | Centennial Park AZ | 1,839 | $168K | 3.5% | 2.5% | 31% | B+ |
| 1,084 | Newcastle CA | 1,585 | $109K | 12.4% | 2.8% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,085 | Diablo Grande CA | 1,948 | $129K | 6.1% | 3.4% | 0% | B+ |
| 1,086 | Kings Mills OH | 1,175 | $140K | 19.1% | 2.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Newcastle, 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 Newcastle: questions
What is the median household income in Newcastle?
$108,750 (±$46,256) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Newcastle?
12.4%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Newcastle?
20 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Newcastle work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (12%, 28 mi), Roseville (9%, 12 mi), Auburn (7%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Newcastle walkable?
Newcastle is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Newcastle without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Newcastle, from the people who make the trip.
More of Newcastle
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.