Photo: UncleVinny · CC BY 3.0Pollock Pines has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Pollock Pines has 565 jobs, against 2,685 working residents. Jobs and income earn Pollock Pines C−; getting around on foot earns it C+. Only 6% work in Pollock Pines itself; outside it, Placerville draws the most (13%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Pollock Pines
Pollock Pines is a place people come home to
There are 565 jobs based in Pollock Pines, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Pollock Pines has about 4,100 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Pollock Pines
63% of Pollock Pines residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 39% of the jobs based in Pollock Pines pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 94% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% 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 ↓
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.
Income, poverty and work: Pollock Pines’ grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Pollock Pines is better than 23% of U.S. towns, #692 of 847 in California. Household income holds Pollock Pines’ grade up ($74,924, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 16% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pollock Pines could be anywhere from D to B−.
The daily commute in and out of Pollock Pines
On a workday 2,533 residents head out to work, 152 work right here, and 413 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,100 people are in Pollock Pines on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
The kinds of work in Pollock Pines
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pollock Pines, 2013 → 2023: 502 → 565. 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 Pollock Pines’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Pollock Pines to work
About 31% 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.
Where people from Pollock Pines work
Where Pollock Pines clocks in
13% of workers
9% 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.
The trip to work from Pollock Pines: about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pollock Pines workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,334 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.
In Pollock Pines, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pollock Pines is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns, #738 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 2,733 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 54% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 30% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 66% 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). 7.3% of Pollock Pines households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pollock Pines’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,432 U.S. towns of 4,300 to 8,400, Pollock Pines comes 2,774th on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,772 | Creston IA | 7,335 | $53K | 15.8% | 3.6% | 41% | C− |
| 2,773 | Prospect Park NJ | 6,450 | $53K | 28.3% | 11.5% | 4% | C− |
| 2,774 | Pollock Pines CA | 6,212 | $75K | 16.7% | 5.1% | 6% | C− |
| 2,775 | Inwood FL | 7,556 | $56K | 20.3% | 6.5% | 2% | C− |
| 2,776 | Devils Lake ND | 7,333 | $43K | 21.8% | 1.7% | 53% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,432 | 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 Pollock Pines, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Pollock Pines and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pollock Pines workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pollock Pines | – | C− | C+ | 32 min | $74,924 |
| Camino | under 3% | B+ | C+ | 29 min | $85,341 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pollock Pines’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 Pollock Pines: questions
What is the median household income in Pollock Pines?
$74,924 (±$8,190) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pollock Pines?
16.7%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pollock Pines?
32 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pollock Pines work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Placerville (13%, 11 mi), Sacramento (9%, 49 mi), Diamond Springs (7%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pollock Pines walkable?
Pollock Pines is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 9.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pollock Pines without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 30% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pollock Pines, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pollock Pines
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.