Niland has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Hardly any work in Niland; the top destination outside it is Calipatria (11%, 5 miles). Niland has 32 jobs, against 181 working residents. Getting around Niland on foot earns B.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Niland
On a workday 181 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 32 people come in from elsewhere.
About 970 people are in Niland on a workday afternoon, 13% 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.
Where the trip to work from Niland ends
Where Niland clocks in
11% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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.
What Niland’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Niland, 2013 → 2023: 25 → 32. 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 Niland’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes each way for Niland’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Niland workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 447 commuters (the 16% 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 far Niland goes to work
About 56% 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.
Few in Niland walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Niland is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 42.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 532 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). 12.1% of Niland households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 14% of Niland’s commuters take a bus or train.
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 Niland: questions
What is the poverty rate in Niland?
14.8%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Niland?
25 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Niland work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Calipatria (11%, 5 mi), Brawley (8%, 18 mi), San Diego (8%, 97 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Niland walkable?
Niland is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 42% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Niland without a car?
14% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Niland, from the people who make the trip.
More of Niland
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.