Photo: Trios2007 · Public domainWith 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Nuevo works elsewhere
424 jobs are based in Nuevo for 2,530 working residents. Nuevo grades B+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 85% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Nuevo
Nuevo workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 39 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 299 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Nuevo is a place people come home to
There are 424 jobs based in Nuevo, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Nuevo has about 4,700 people in it, 31% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Nuevo makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Nuevo are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Nuevo residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 18%. The jobs ↓
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.
Jobs & income in Nuevo: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Nuevo is better than 68% of U.S. towns, #325 of 847 in California. Household income holds Nuevo’s grade up ($112,857, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (7.0%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Nuevo could be anywhere from B− to A.
About 39 minutes to work from Nuevo
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Nuevo workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,511 commuters (the 10% 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.
Nuevo on a workday afternoon
On a workday 2,479 residents head out to work, 51 work right here, and 373 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,700 people are in Nuevo on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
Making and building: 42% of jobs based in Nuevo
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Nuevo, 2013 → 2023: 193 → 424. 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 Nuevo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
9% of working residents work in Riverside
Where Nuevo clocks in
9% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Nuevo
About 22% 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.
In Nuevo, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Nuevo is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns, #823 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 2,792 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 1.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 61% 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). 7.3% of Nuevo households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Nuevo’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Nuevo is 1,236th of 3,168 U.S. towns of 4,800 to 9,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 111 | La Habra Heights CA | 5,327 | $180K | 4.9% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,234 | Bridgewater VA | 6,924 | $75K | 6.3% | 3.4% | 12% | B+ |
| 1,235 | Hurley NY | 6,133 | $101K | 10.1% | 2.4% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,236 | Nuevo CA | 6,803 | $113K | 6.6% | 7.0% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,237 | Jefferson Township IN | 6,002 | $74K | 7.0% | 3.0% | 12% | B+ |
| 1,238 | St. George Township KS | 5,056 | $89K | 7.4% | 2.2% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,168 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Nuevo, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Next door to Nuevo
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Nuevo’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Nuevo: questions
What is the median household income in Nuevo?
$112,857 (±$26,198) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Nuevo?
6.6%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Nuevo?
39 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Nuevo work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Riverside (9%, 17 mi), Perris (8%, 5 mi), Moreno Valley (7%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Nuevo walkable?
Nuevo is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Nuevo without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Nuevo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Nuevo
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.