Orosi Branch Library · Photo: Bobak Ha'Eri · CC BY 3.0Few U.S. towns have unemployment as high as Orosi’s 17.6%
Measured by household income, Orosi is behind 82% of U.S. towns. Orosi grades D for jobs and income and C for walkability. 3% of workers have no commute at all; California has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Orosi stands out on work
What’s behind Orosi’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Orosi is better than 9% of U.S. towns, #796 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Orosi’s grade up (ahead of 44% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Orosi could be anywhere from D− to C+.
About 29 minutes each way, about the CA average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Orosi workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,771 commuters (the 3% 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.
Orosi quiets down on a workday
On a workday 2,488 residents head out to work, 254 work right here, and 1,078 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,600 people are in Orosi on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.49 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 2024, primary jobs.
15% of working residents work in Visalia
Where Orosi clocks in
15% of workers
9% of workers
9% 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.
Jobs in Orosi: what the 1,332 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Orosi, 2014 → 2024: 1,209 → 1,332. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Orosi’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Orosi commutes
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The commute in Orosi is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Orosi is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns, #768 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.0% 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 2,855 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). 6.0% of Orosi households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Orosi’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Orosi sits among U.S. towns of 6,300 to 12,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Piedmont CA | 10,642 | $250K | 4.3% | 1.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 96 | Sierra Madre CA | 10,620 | $144K | 4.6% | 2.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,720 | Woodward OK | 11,635 | $54K | 17.2% | 7.5% | 43% | D |
| 2,721 | Pearsall TX | 9,170 | $49K | 28.0% | 4.9% | 21% | D |
| 2,722 | Orosi CA | 8,966 | $55K | 22.0% | 17.6% | 9% | D |
| 2,723 | Live Oak FL | 7,248 | $59K | 16.3% | 14.2% | 22% | D |
| 2,724 | Wayne NE | 6,338 | $54K | 19.9% | 6.5% | 48% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 2,862 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Orosi, the top three, the last and three more from California.
The towns around Orosi
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Cutler. Darker towns draw more of Orosi’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 2024, 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 Orosi: questions
What is the median household income in Orosi?
$54,604 (±$13,075) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Orosi?
22.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Orosi?
29 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Orosi work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Visalia (15%, 15 mi), Dinuba (9%, 6 mi), Fresno (9%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Orosi walkable?
Orosi is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Orosi without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Orosi, from the people who make the trip.
More of Orosi
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.