Pine Canyon has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Measured by household income, Pine Canyon is ahead of 84% of U.S. towns. Pine Canyon has 47 jobs, against 829 working residents. Jobs and income earn Pine Canyon B; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Pine Canyon and work: the main findings
Pine Canyon is a place people come home to
There are 47 jobs based in Pine Canyon, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Pine Canyon has about 1,700 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Pine Canyon and King City trade workers both ways
King City is the top workplace for Pine Canyon residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Pine Canyon come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 829 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Pine Canyon
On income, poverty and job access, Pine Canyon is better than 58% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Pine Canyon’s grade up ($110,827, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (5.2%) is left out: Pine Canyon’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, Pine Canyon could be anywhere from C to B+.
Who leaves Pine Canyon for work, and who comes in
On a workday 825 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 43 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Pine Canyon on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
22% of working residents work in King City
Where Pine Canyon clocks in
22% of workers
10% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Pine Canyon
About 36% 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.
What Pine Canyon’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pine Canyon, 2013 → 2023: 21 → 47. 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 Pine Canyon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 31 minutes each way for Pine Canyon’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pine Canyon workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 734 commuters (the 21% 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.
For most of Pine Canyon, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pine Canyon is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 925 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). 0.0% of Pine Canyon households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Pine Canyon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,207 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300, Pine Canyon comes 1,854th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Ross CA | 2,304 | $250K | 4.8% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 113 | Fairbanks Ranch CA | 2,703 | $250K | 5.5% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,852 | Lee Township OH | 2,804 | $82K | 7.7% | 2.4% | 7% | B |
| 1,853 | Warwick Township OH | 2,732 | $79K | 14.5% | 1.6% | 2% | B |
| 1,854 | Pine Canyon CA | 2,477 | $111K | 6.3% | 5.2% | <1% | B |
| 1,855 | Genoa OH | 2,167 | $66K | 7.7% | 2.4% | 5% | B |
| 1,856 | Milford ME | 3,117 | $85K | 5.3% | 4.0% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Pine Canyon, 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 Pine Canyon: questions
What is the median household income in Pine Canyon?
$110,827 (±$37,174) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pine Canyon?
6.3%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pine Canyon?
31 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pine Canyon work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are King City (22%, 3 mi), Salinas (10%, 45 mi), Soledad (7%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pine Canyon walkable?
Pine Canyon is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pine Canyon without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pine Canyon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pine Canyon
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.