Photo: Bobak Ha'Eri · CC BY 3.0More people are out of work in Reedley (13.4%) than in 98% of U.S. towns
6% of workers have no commute at all, where California as a whole has 17%. Reedley grades C− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. About one in five work in Reedley itself; outside it, Fresno draws the most (17%, 23 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Reedley at work: what stands out
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Reedley
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Reedley is better than 18% of U.S. towns, #729 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Reedley’s grade up (ahead of 64% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Reedley could be anywhere from D to C−.
How many miles Reedley commutes
About 19% 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.
In and out of Reedley on a workday
On a workday 7,556 residents head out to work, 1,833 work right here, and 5,253 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.75 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Reedley to work: where people go
Where Reedley clocks in
17% of workers
5% of workers
5% 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 7,086 jobs based in Reedley
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Reedley, 2013 → 2023: 6,672 → 7,086. 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 Reedley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes each way for Reedley’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Reedley workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9,283 commuters (the 6% 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.
Driving is how Reedley gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Reedley is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns, #589 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.7% 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 9,863 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 47% 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 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 44% 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). 7.7% of Reedley households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Reedley’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 19,000 to 36,000, and where Reedley sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Orinda CA | 19,507 | $250K | 2.2% | 3.4% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Manhattan Beach CA | 33,122 | $204K | 4.5% | 3.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 109 | Saratoga CA | 30,418 | $250K | 3.3% | 4.0% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,374 | Centralia WA | 19,375 | $56K | 19.6% | 5.7% | 16% | C− |
| 1,375 | Paragould AR | 31,135 | $57K | 17.8% | 7.2% | 45% | C− |
| 1,376 | Reedley CA | 26,982 | $63K | 22.3% | 13.4% | 20% | C− |
| 1,377 | Atwater CA | 32,133 | $64K | 21.0% | 12.3% | 11% | C− |
| 1,378 | Alton TX | 24,138 | $53K | 27.5% | 8.3% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,477 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 Reedley, 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 Reedley: questions
What is the median household income in Reedley?
$63,307 (±$5,877) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Reedley?
22.3%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Reedley?
25 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Reedley work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fresno (17%, 23 mi), Dinuba (5%, 5 mi), Visalia (5%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Reedley walkable?
Reedley is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 9.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Reedley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Reedley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Reedley
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.