Rancho Camulos · Photo: Norris M. Knaus · Public domainUnemployment in Piru (9.0%) is higher than in 92% of U.S. towns
Piru grades C for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 4% work in Piru; the top destination outside it is Los Angeles (15%, 35 miles). For 10% of workers, the job is at home, against 17% across California.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Piru, in brief
Stores, warehouses and trucking
73% of the jobs in Piru are in trade, transport and utilities, against 22% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Piru’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Piru is Los Angeles, 35 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (156) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Piru workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical 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.
Where Piru’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Piru is better than 25% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Piru’s grade up ($89,375, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Piru could be anywhere from D to B.
The 626 jobs based in Piru
626 jobs are based in Piru.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Piru, 2013 → 2023: 261 → 626. 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 Piru’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Piru goes to work
About 25% 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.
About 34 minutes each way for Piru’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Piru workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 990 commuters (the 10% 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 daily flow of workers through Piru
On a workday 1,019 residents head out to work, 40 work right here, and 586 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Piru on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
0.59 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.
Where Piru goes to work
Where Piru clocks in
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.
In Piru, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Piru is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,102 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 Piru households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Piru’s commuters take a bus or train.
Piru is 3,696th of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Del Rio CA | 1,508 | $250K | 0.0% | 2.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,694 | Bethel Township PA | 1,564 | $75K | 10.4% | 3.1% | 8% | C |
| 3,695 | Ridgeway AK | 1,997 | $90K | 16.6% | 22.6% | — | C |
| 3,696 | Piru CA | 2,185 | $89K | 15.8% | 9.0% | 4% | C |
| 3,697 | Colorado City CO | 1,615 | $45K | 5.1% | 0.0% | 14% | C |
| 3,698 | Glenmoor OH | 1,590 | $74K | 20.4% | 6.8% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | 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 Piru, 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 Piru: questions
What is the median household income in Piru?
$89,375 (±$19,941) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Piru?
15.8%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Piru?
34 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Piru work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Los Angeles (15%, 35 mi), San Buenaventura (Ventura) (5%, 27 mi), Oxnard (4%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Piru walkable?
Piru is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Piru without a car?
0% 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 Piru, from the people who make the trip.
More of Piru
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.