Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Placerville has 1.9 jobs for every working resident: 7,381 people commute in to work
Employers in Placerville report 8,138 jobs; 4,279 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Placerville are C+ for jobs and income and A for walkability. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 4.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 7.8 in Sacramento.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Placerville, in brief
Placerville is where the jobs are
Placerville has 8,138 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Placerville draws workers from far and wide
The 8,138 jobs in Placerville are filled from a wide area. Placerville’s own residents hold 9% and the ten next-biggest home towns 33%; the other 58% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Placerville
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Placerville is better than 36% of U.S. towns, #606 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Placerville’s grade up (ahead of 51% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.9%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Placerville could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Placerville by day and by night
On a workday 3,522 residents head out to work and 757 work right here.
About 15,000 people are in Placerville on a workday afternoon, 36% more 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.
Who travels to work in Placerville, and from where
Where Placerville clocks in
8% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Placerville, 2013 → 2023: 9,038 → 8,138. 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 Placerville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 28 minutes from Placerville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Placerville workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,165 commuters (the 16% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Placerville
About 26% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Placerville
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Placerville is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns, #309 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.8% of 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 4,959 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 98% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 86% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 82% 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). 4.9% of Placerville households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Placerville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Placerville is 2,072nd among 2,878 U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
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| 15 | Piedmont CA | 10,642 | $250K | 4.3% | 1.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 89 | Sierra Madre CA | 10,620 | $144K | 4.6% | 2.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,070 | Madison Heights VA | 10,266 | $60K | 10.5% | 5.2% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,071 | Bedford Heights OH | 10,691 | $50K | 12.7% | 6.5% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,072 | Placerville CA | 10,685 | $67K | 15.9% | 4.3% | 18% | C+ |
| 2,073 | Beatrice NE | 12,318 | $57K | 17.4% | 1.7% | 45% | C+ |
| 2,074 | Boaz AL | 10,619 | $50K | 19.4% | 2.1% | 17% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Placerville, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Placerville and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Diamond Springs (9%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Placerville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Placerville | – | C+ | A | 28 min | $67,274 |
| Diamond Springs | 9% | C | B+ | 21 min | $77,219 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Placerville’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 Placerville: questions
What is the median household income in Placerville?
$67,274 (±$14,025) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Placerville?
15.9%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Placerville?
28 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Placerville work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Diamond Springs (9%, 4 mi), Sacramento (8%, 38 mi), El Dorado Hills (4%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Placerville walkable?
Placerville is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 12.6 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Placerville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 86% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Placerville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Placerville
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.