Photo: Bobak Ha'Eri · CC BY 3.0Households in Orange Cove earn less than those in 91% of U.S. towns
1% of workers work from home, against 17% across California. Poverty touches 34.0% of residents (California 12.0%). The two grades for Orange Cove are D 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
Orange Cove at work: what stands out
Few Orange Cove workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 17% across California. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Orange Cove’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Orange Cove is Fresno, 29 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (408) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Orange Cove is a place people come home to
There are 843 jobs based in Orange Cove, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
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 four measures behind Orange Cove’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Orange Cove is better than 6% of U.S. towns, #812 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Orange Cove’s grade up (ahead of 45% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (16.7%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Orange Cove could be anywhere from D− to D.
Each way, about 28 minutes from Orange Cove
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Orange Cove workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,310 commuters (the 1% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Orange Cove
About 21% 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.
Who commutes out of Orange Cove, and who commutes in
On a workday 3,041 residents head out to work, 194 work right here, and 649 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,400 people are in Orange Cove on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.26 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.
13% of working residents work in Fresno
Where Orange Cove clocks in
13% 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 Orange Cove’s employers do
843 jobs are based in Orange Cove.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Orange Cove, 2013 → 2023: 685 → 843. 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 Orange Cove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most trips from Orange Cove start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Orange Cove is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns, #697 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.3% of 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 3,357 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 65% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 21% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 45% 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). 14.0% of Orange Cove households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Orange Cove’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 6,900 to 13,200, and where Orange Cove sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Piedmont CA | 10,642 | $250K | 4.3% | 1.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 86 | Sierra Madre CA | 10,620 | $144K | 4.6% | 2.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,674 | Stuttgart AR | 7,525 | $49K | 23.1% | 10.5% | 60% | D |
| 2,675 | Kewanee Township IL | 9,494 | $51K | 19.5% | 11.7% | 32% | D |
| 2,676 | Orange Cove CA | 9,811 | $47K | 34.0% | 16.7% | 6% | D |
| 2,677 | Sterling CO | 13,054 | $43K | 19.0% | 7.8% | 40% | D |
| 2,678 | Vernon TX | 9,747 | $51K | 18.6% | 11.8% | 54% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 2,734 | 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 Orange Cove, 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 Orange Cove: questions
What is the median household income in Orange Cove?
$46,629 (±$12,713) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Orange Cove?
34.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Orange Cove?
28 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Orange Cove work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fresno (13%, 29 mi), Reedley (8%, 7 mi), Dinuba (8%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Orange Cove walkable?
Orange Cove is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 9.7 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Orange Cove without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. 21% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Orange Cove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Orange Cove
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.