Photo: Grmc922 · CC BY-SA 4.0Pleasure Point has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
1,107 jobs are based in Pleasure Point for 2,136 working residents. Jobs and income earn Pleasure Point B+; getting around on foot earns it A. Measured by household income, Pleasure Point is ahead of 88% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Pleasure Point, in brief
The better-paid jobs are outside Pleasure Point
66% of Pleasure Point residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 37% of the jobs based in Pleasure Point pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 96% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Pleasure Point and Santa Cruz trade workers both ways
Santa Cruz is the top workplace for Pleasure Point residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Pleasure Point come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
38% of the jobs based in Pleasure Point are held by workers 29 or younger, against 19% of Pleasure Point’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Home offices are common in Pleasure Point
26% of Pleasure Point workers work from home, against 17% across California. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Pleasure Point are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical California 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Pleasure Point
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Pleasure Point is better than 68% of U.S. towns, #320 of 847 in California. Household income holds Pleasure Point’s grade up ($119,821, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (4.6%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pleasure Point could be anywhere from C+ to A+.
What Pleasure Point’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pleasure Point, 2013 → 2023: 794 → 1,107. 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 Pleasure Point’s own residents hold wherever they work.
21% of working residents work in Santa Cruz
Where Pleasure Point clocks in
21% 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.
How long Pleasure Point spends getting to work: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pleasure Point workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,372 commuters (the 26% 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 commute in and out of Pleasure Point
On a workday 2,045 residents head out to work, 91 work right here, and 1,016 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,500 people are in Pleasure Point on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
Half of Pleasure Point commutes less than 8 miles
About 18% 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.
Pleasure Point is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pleasure Point is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns, #139 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 5.7% 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 3,210 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 44% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 69% 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). 4.3% of Pleasure Point households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pleasure Point’s commuters take a bus or train.
Pleasure Point places 1,290th of 3,612 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 3,800 to 7,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Del Mar CA | 3,858 | $199K | 2.7% | 1.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 78 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,288 | Collegeville PA | 5,287 | $91K | 7.1% | 6.7% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,289 | Union Township IN | 6,258 | $72K | 9.2% | 1.7% | 13% | B+ |
| 1,290 | Pleasure Point CA | 5,489 | $120K | 8.9% | 4.6% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,291 | Middleville MI | 4,407 | $74K | 7.7% | 3.1% | 11% | B+ |
| 1,292 | Aldan PA | 4,253 | $75K | 8.9% | 4.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,612 | 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 Pleasure Point, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Pleasure Point and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Capitola (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pleasure Point workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasure Point | – | B+ | A | 23 min | $119,821 |
| Capitola | 6% | B+ | A+ | 23 min | $102,976 |
| Twin Lakes | under 3% | B | A+ | 21 min | $90,087 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pleasure Point’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 Pleasure Point: questions
What is the median household income in Pleasure Point?
$119,821 (±$22,764) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pleasure Point?
8.9%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pleasure Point?
23 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pleasure Point work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Santa Cruz (21%, 4 mi), Live Oak (7%, 2 mi), San Jose (7%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pleasure Point walkable?
Pleasure Point is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 14.7 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pleasure Point without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 44% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pleasure Point, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pleasure Point
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.