Big Creek Hydroelectric System Historic District · Photo: kallahar · CC BY 3.0Households in Richgrove earn less than those in 93% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where California as a whole has 17%. Below the poverty line: 32.8% of residents; California has 12.0%. The two grades for Richgrove are D− for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Richgrove in brief
A big share show a job far from home
42% 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 ↓
Few Richgrove workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 17% across California. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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; with 366 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Richgrove’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Richgrove is better than 2% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Richgrove’s grade.
Unemployment (11.6%) is left out: Richgrove’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Richgrove could be anywhere from D− to D.
Short hops and long hauls from Richgrove
About 42% 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.
Richgrove’s commute takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Richgrove workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 685 commuters (the 0% 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.
Who commutes out of Richgrove, and who commutes in
On a workday 359 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 184 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.
0.52 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.
11% of working residents work in Delano
Where Richgrove clocks in
11% of workers
7% 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.
Richgrove is a services town
191 jobs are based in Richgrove.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Richgrove, 2013 → 2023: 154 → 191. 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 Richgrove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most of Richgrove commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Richgrove is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% 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 685 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). 7.1% of Richgrove households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Richgrove’s commuters take a bus or train.
Richgrove next to U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,600
| # | 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Irwindale CA | 1,439 | $114K | 4.3% | 6.5% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,071 | Newport WA | 2,242 | $51K | 29.1% | 6.5% | 23% | D− |
| 5,072 | Marion Township OH | 1,481 | $35K | 32.7% | 3.3% | 1% | D− |
| 5,073 | Richgrove CA | 1,960 | $45K | 32.8% | 11.6% | 2% | D− |
| 5,074 | York AL | 2,233 | $30K | 39.5% | 4.3% | 11% | D− |
| 5,075 | Cottonport LA | 1,916 | $32K | 27.4% | 6.2% | 7% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,234 | 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 Richgrove, 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 Richgrove: questions
What is the median household income in Richgrove?
$44,950 (±$15,962) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Richgrove?
32.8%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Richgrove?
25 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Richgrove work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Delano (11%, 9 mi), Bakersfield (7%, 31 mi), Fresno (5%, 78 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Richgrove walkable?
Richgrove is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Richgrove without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Richgrove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Richgrove
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.