Most of Seeley commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers, against 17% across California. Seeley has 102 jobs for 490 working residents. For jobs and income Seeley is better than 18% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Seeley: the figures worth knowing
Seeley and El Centro trade workers both ways
El Centro is the top workplace for Seeley residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Seeley come from (38% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Seeley is a place people come home to
There are 102 jobs based in Seeley, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Seeley has about 790 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 ↓
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 490 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Seeley’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Job access by car holds Seeley’s grade up (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (19.5%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (17.9%) is left out: Seeley’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Seeley could be anywhere from D− to B+.
20% of working residents work in El Centro
Where Seeley clocks in
20% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
Seeley quiets down on a workday
On a workday 485 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 97 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Seeley on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Seeley
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.
In Seeley, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Seeley, 2013 → 2023: 27 → 102. 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 Seeley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Seeley takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Seeley workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 469 commuters (the 8% 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.
Few in Seeley walk, bike or ride to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% 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 509 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). 0.0% of Seeley households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Seeley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600, Seeley ranks 3,056th of 4,312 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 15 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,054 | Mellen Township MI | 1,095 | $51K | 7.3% | 7.3% | 3% | C− |
| 3,055 | Tuscarora NY | 1,370 | $77K | 18.5% | 3.1% | 3% | C− |
| 3,056 | Seeley CA | 1,182 | $63K | 19.5% | 17.9% | 1% | C− |
| 3,057 | Crothersville IN | 1,506 | $56K | 26.0% | 2.3% | 12% | C− |
| 3,058 | New Waverly TX | 1,031 | $48K | 22.2% | 10.2% | 8% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Seeley, 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 Seeley: questions
What is the median household income in Seeley?
$62,841 (±$37,795) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Seeley?
19.5%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Seeley?
24 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Seeley work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are El Centro (20%, 7 mi), San Diego (7%, 84 mi), Imperial (6%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Seeley walkable?
Seeley is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Seeley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Seeley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Seeley
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.