Photo: TaurusEmerald · CC BY-SA 4.0Pine Grove has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
There are 350 jobs in Pine Grove, against 1,243 working residents. The two grades for Pine Grove are C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. For 5% of workers, the job is at home, where California as a whole has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Pine Grove, in brief
A big share show a job far from home
40% 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 ↓
Pine Grove is a place people come home to
There are 350 jobs based in Pine Grove, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Pine Grove has about 2,100 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. 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.
Inside Pine Grove’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Pine Grove is better than 38% of U.S. towns, #593 of 847 in California. The poverty rate holds Pine Grove’s grade up (5.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pine Grove could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Pine Grove’s commute, mile by mile
About 40% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Pine Grove
On a workday 1,203 residents head out to work, 40 work right here, and 310 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Pine Grove on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
12% of working residents work in Jackson
Where Pine Grove clocks in
12% of workers
7% 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.
Jobs in Pine Grove: what the 350 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pine Grove, 2013 → 2023: 275 → 350. 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 Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Pine Grove: about 32 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pine Grove workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,254 commuters (the 5% 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.
Few in Pine Grove walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pine Grove is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns, #684 of 847 in California. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,315 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 0.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 51% 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). 1.4% of Pine Grove households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pine Grove’s commuters take a bus or train.
Pine Grove is 2,884th of 4,771 U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,100 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 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Del Mar CA | 3,858 | $199K | 2.7% | 1.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 94 | Ross CA | 2,304 | $250K | 4.8% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,882 | Wentworth NC | 2,774 | $69K | 18.1% | 2.6% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,883 | Stonycreek Township PA | 2,637 | $55K | 11.2% | 4.2% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,884 | Pine Grove CA | 3,040 | $89K | 5.9% | 6.5% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,885 | Villa Ridge MO | 2,835 | $74K | 15.9% | 5.1% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,886 | Lagro Township IN | 2,736 | $82K | 5.8% | 11.7% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,771 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Grove, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Work in the towns next to Pine Grove
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pine Grove workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Grove | – | C+ | B− | 32 min | $89,311 |
| Red Corral | under 2% | C+ | D | 37 min | $85,581 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pine Grove’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 Pine Grove: questions
What is the median household income in Pine Grove?
$89,311 (±$7,114) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pine Grove?
5.9%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pine Grove?
32 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pine Grove work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jackson (12%, 7 mi), Sacramento (7%, 45 mi), Sutter Creek (3%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pine Grove walkable?
Pine Grove is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pine Grove without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pine Grove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pine Grove
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.