Photo: Velo Steve · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Pine Mountain Lake works elsewhere
Pine Mountain Lake has 340 jobs for 1,253 working residents. For jobs and income Pine Mountain Lake is better than 42% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (B+). About one in ten work in Pine Mountain Lake; the top destination outside it is Groveland (5%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Pine Mountain Lake at work: what stands out
A big share show a job far from home
61% 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 Mountain Lake workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 42 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 322 hours of commuting, 100 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Pine Mountain Lake is a place people come home to
There are 340 jobs based in Pine Mountain Lake, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Pine Mountain Lake has about 1,600 people in it, 37% 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.
Jobs & income in Pine Mountain Lake: the grade in detail
The poverty rate holds Pine Mountain Lake’s grade up (5.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (10.2%) is left out: Pine Mountain Lake’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 Mountain Lake could be anywhere from C− to B.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Pine Mountain Lake
About 61% 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.
Getting to work from Pine Mountain Lake takes about 42 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pine Mountain Lake workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 561 commuters (the 15% 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.
Who commutes out of Pine Mountain Lake, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,151 residents head out to work, 102 work right here, and 238 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Pine Mountain Lake on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
Commuting out of Pine Mountain Lake: the destinations
Where Pine Mountain Lake clocks in
5% of workers
4% 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 Mountain Lake: what the 340 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pine Mountain Lake, 2013 → 2023: 215 → 340. 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 Mountain Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Pine Mountain Lake is a driving town
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 658 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 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 54% 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). 4.7% of Pine Mountain Lake households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pine Mountain Lake’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Pine Mountain Lake is 2,858th among 5,401 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 84 | Ross CA | 2,304 | $250K | 4.8% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 116 | Fairbanks Ranch CA | 2,703 | $250K | 5.5% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,856 | Sour Lake TX | 1,841 | $73K | 12.6% | 6.6% | 12% | C+ |
| 2,857 | Erie Township MN | 1,737 | $74K | 6.7% | 2.5% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,858 | Pine Mountain Lake CA | 2,498 | $79K | 5.6% | 10.2% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,859 | Blue Earth MN | 3,165 | $67K | 10.8% | 2.5% | 50% | C+ |
| 2,860 | Clearwater Township MI | 2,600 | $75K | 8.4% | 3.8% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,401 | 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 Mountain Lake, the top three, the last and three more from California.
How Pine Mountain Lake compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pine Mountain Lake workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Mountain Lake | – | C+ | B+ | 42 min | $79,387 |
| Groveland | 5% | — | — | 34 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Groveland: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Groveland. Darker towns draw more of Pine Mountain Lake’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 Mountain Lake: questions
What is the median household income in Pine Mountain Lake?
$79,387 (±$13,133) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pine Mountain Lake?
5.6%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pine Mountain Lake?
42 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pine Mountain Lake work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Groveland (5%, 4 mi), San Francisco (4%, 123 mi), San Jose (4%, 98 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pine Mountain Lake walkable?
Pine Mountain Lake is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pine Mountain Lake without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pine Mountain Lake, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pine Mountain Lake
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.