Condominium 1 · Photo: Sanfranman59 · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Sea Ranch are higher than in 93% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Sea Ranch are B+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. 3.0% of residents live below the poverty line, against 12.0% across California. 58% of workers have no commute at all, where California as a whole has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Sea Ranch: the figures worth knowing
A lot of Sea Ranch works from home
58% of Sea Ranch workers work from home, against 17% across California. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
64% 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 ↓
Sea Ranch’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Sea Ranch is San Francisco, 86 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (27) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. 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; with 327 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Sea Ranch earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Sea Ranch is better than 68% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Sea Ranch’s grade up ($139,375, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Sea Ranch’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, Sea Ranch could be anywhere from B to B+.
Commuting from Sea Ranch: about 44 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sea Ranch workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 173 commuters (the 58% 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.
How far Sea Ranch’s workers travel
About 64% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Sea Ranch
On a workday 311 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 159 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Sea Ranch on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.54 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.
8% of working residents work in San Francisco
Where Sea Ranch clocks in
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.
67% of the jobs in Sea Ranch pay over $3,333 a month
175 jobs are based in Sea Ranch.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sea Ranch, 2013 → 2023: 141 → 175. 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 Sea Ranch’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting around Sea Ranch: mostly by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 14.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 410 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 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). 7.2% of Sea Ranch households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 14% of Sea Ranch’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Sea Ranch ranks: 888th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 16 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 886 | Easton WI | 1,160 | $105K | 6.4% | 0.8% | 1% | B+ |
| 887 | Prudhoe Bay AK | 1,664 | — | 6.3% | 1.2% | — | B+ |
| 888 | Sea Ranch CA | 1,287 | $139K | 3.0% | 3.5% | 5% | B+ |
| 889 | Penhook VA | 1,250 | $109K | 0.4% | 1.3% | 1% | B+ |
| 890 | Story WY | 1,054 | $114K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Sea Ranch, 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 Sea Ranch: questions
What is the median household income in Sea Ranch?
$139,375 (±$28,019) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sea Ranch?
3.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sea Ranch?
44 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 58% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sea Ranch work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Francisco (8%, 86 mi), Santa Rosa (5%, 45 mi), Timber Cove (4%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sea Ranch walkable?
Sea Ranch is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sea Ranch without a car?
14% 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 Sea Ranch, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sea Ranch
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.