Fresno draws more than half of Old Fig Garden’s working residents
For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 6.2 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 5.7 in Fresno. The two grades for Old Fig Garden are B+ for jobs and income and A for walkability. Measured by household income, Old Fig Garden is ahead of 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Old Fig Garden, in brief
More than half of Old Fig Garden works in Fresno
1,317 working residents, 58%, have their main job in Fresno, 1.2 miles away. That’s 58 times as many as work in Old Fig Garden itself. The commute map ↓
Most Old Fig Garden residents work close to home
69% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Commutes from Old Fig Garden 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.
The figures behind Old Fig Garden’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Old Fig Garden is better than 72% of U.S. towns, #266 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Old Fig Garden’s grade up (ahead of 87% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (5.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Old Fig Garden could be anywhere from B− to A.
Where Old Fig Garden goes to work
Where Old Fig Garden clocks in
58% of workers
5% of workers
2% 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.
How many miles Old Fig Garden commutes
About 19% 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.
Old Fig Garden’s 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 Old Fig Garden workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,954 commuters (the 19% 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 commute in and out of Old Fig Garden
On a workday 2,244 residents head out to work, 34 work right here, and 846 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,100 people are in Old Fig Garden on a workday afternoon, 25% fewer than live here.
0.39 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.
Services make up most of the work in Old Fig Garden
880 jobs are based in Old Fig Garden.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Old Fig Garden, 2013 → 2023: 783 → 880. 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 Old Fig Garden’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Old Fig Garden is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Old Fig Garden is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns, #127 of 847 in California. Both inputs place Old Fig Garden 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 2,427 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 36% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 6.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 88% 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). 8.3% of Old Fig Garden households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Old Fig Garden’s commuters take a bus or train.
Old Fig Garden is 1,062nd of 3,432 U.S. towns of 3,900 to 7,400 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 72 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 118 | La Habra Heights CA | 5,327 | $180K | 4.9% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,060 | Salem Township OH | 5,661 | $96K | 6.4% | 4.7% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,061 | Chadds Ford Township PA | 3,992 | $168K | 6.3% | 9.7% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,062 | Old Fig Garden CA | 5,503 | $106K | 7.9% | 5.7% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,063 | Thurmont MD | 6,337 | $98K | 11.1% | 2.5% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,064 | Marlborough CT | 6,213 | $142K | 9.7% | 5.5% | 7% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,432 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Old Fig Garden, 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 Old Fig Garden: questions
What is the median household income in Old Fig Garden?
$105,781 (±$26,308) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Old Fig Garden?
7.9%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Old Fig Garden?
24 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Old Fig Garden work?
1% work in town.
Is Old Fig Garden walkable?
Old Fig Garden is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 13.8 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Old Fig Garden without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 36% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Old Fig Garden, from the people who make the trip.
More of Old Fig Garden
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.