Parkwood has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Parkwood has 233 jobs, and 852 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Parkwood C; getting around on foot earns it B−. 1% of workers work from home, next to 17% for California as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Parkwood, in a few figures
Parkwood and Madera trade workers both ways
Madera is the top workplace for Parkwood residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Parkwood come from (36% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Parkwood is a place people come home to
There are 233 jobs based in Parkwood, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Parkwood has about 1,100 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Parkwood are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 69 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; with 852 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Parkwood: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Parkwood is better than 31% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Parkwood’s grade up (ahead of 69% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (20.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (15.8%) is left out: Parkwood’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Parkwood could be anywhere from D to A.
25% of working residents work in Madera
Where Parkwood clocks in
25% of workers
19% of workers
3% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Parkwood
On a workday 843 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 224 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Parkwood on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Each way, about 20 minutes from Parkwood
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Parkwood workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 657 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.
The kinds of work in Parkwood
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Parkwood, 2013 → 2023: 166 → 233. 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 Parkwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Parkwood
About 24% 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.
Most of Parkwood commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Parkwood is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns. 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 666 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, 100% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 3.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 77% 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). 5.9% of Parkwood households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Parkwood’s commuters take a bus or train.
Parkwood is 3,543rd of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Irwindale CA | 1,439 | $114K | 4.3% | 6.5% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,541 | Bark River Township MI | 1,585 | $69K | 7.4% | 3.2% | 5% | C |
| 3,542 | Custer Township MI | 1,213 | $84K | 10.7% | 7.0% | 1% | C |
| 3,543 | Parkwood CA | 1,758 | $62K | 20.8% | 15.8% | 1% | C |
| 3,544 | Starbuck MN | 1,406 | $73K | 10.3% | 2.8% | 10% | C |
| 3,545 | Mills Township MI | 1,807 | $72K | 11.6% | 4.5% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Parkwood, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Next door is work for 25% of Parkwood
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Madera. Darker towns draw more of Parkwood’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 Parkwood: questions
What is the median household income in Parkwood?
$61,645 (±$35,434) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Parkwood?
20.8%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Parkwood?
20 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Parkwood work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Madera (25%, 3 mi), Fresno (19%, 17 mi), Clovis (3%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Parkwood walkable?
Parkwood is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 12.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Parkwood without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 100% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Parkwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Parkwood
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.