Photo: UncleVinny · CC BY 3.0Penryn’s household incomes are higher than in 91% of U.S. towns
For 27% of workers, the job is at home (California 17%). Poverty touches 2.4% of residents (California 12.0%). Penryn grades A+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Penryn, in a few figures
Penryn makes and builds things
44% of the jobs based in Penryn are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Penryn residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
Most jobs in Penryn pay over $40,000 a year
74% of the jobs based in Penryn pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
A lot of Penryn works from home
27% of Penryn workers work from home, against 17% across California. 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 540 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Penryn gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Penryn is better than 98% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input; job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 77% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (5.5%) is left out: Penryn’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Penryn could be anywhere from A− to A+.
Goods, not services: 44% of the jobs in Penryn
381 jobs are based in Penryn.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Penryn, 2013 → 2023: 220 → 381. 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 Penryn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Penryn: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Penryn workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 336 commuters (the 27% 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.
How many people are in Penryn by day
On a workday 529 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 370 people come in from elsewhere.
About 960 people are in Penryn on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.71 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 Roseville
Where Penryn clocks in
13% of workers
12% of workers
7% 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 far it is to work from Penryn
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 trips from Penryn start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Penryn is more walkable than 39% 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 459 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 24% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 24% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 63% 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). 10.7% of Penryn households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Penryn’s commuters take a bus or train.
Penryn places 56th of 3,771 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 15 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 54 | Kaneville Township IL | 1,129 | $133K | 1.4% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 55 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 56 | Penryn CA | 1,114 | $127K | 2.4% | 5.5% | 2% | A+ |
| 57 | Galesville MD | 1,062 | $205K | 2.7% | 6.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 58 | McMillin WA | 1,348 | $141K | 2.3% | 4.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Penryn, 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 Penryn: questions
What is the median household income in Penryn?
$127,361 (±$47,416) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Penryn?
2.4%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Penryn?
23 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 27% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Penryn work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Roseville (13%, 10 mi), Sacramento (12%, 25 mi), Rocklin (7%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Penryn walkable?
Penryn is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Penryn without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 24% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Penryn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Penryn
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.