Photo: Hey Paul from State College, PA, USA · CC BY 2.0Shandon has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Shandon has 85 jobs, against 429 working residents. For jobs and income Shandon is better than 69% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (D). Measured by household income, Shandon is ahead of 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Shandon stands out on work
Shandon and El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) trade workers both ways
El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) is the top workplace for Shandon residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Shandon come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Shandon is a place people come home to
There are 85 jobs based in Shandon, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Shandon has about 830 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 429 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Shandon’s grade explained
The poverty rate holds Shandon’s grade up (1.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (10.4%) is left out: Shandon’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, Shandon could be anywhere from B− to A−.
21% of working residents work in El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)
Where Shandon clocks in
21% of workers
10% 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.
In and out of Shandon on a workday
On a workday 424 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 80 people come in from elsewhere.
About 830 people are in Shandon on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Shandon
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shandon, 2013 → 2023: 71 → 85. 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 Shandon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Shandon, about 29 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shandon workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 517 commuters (the 9% 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.
Shandon’s commute, mile by mile
About 27% 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.
Few in Shandon walk, bike or ride to work
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 566 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 Shandon households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Shandon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600, Shandon ranks 745th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 743 | Serena Township IL | 1,121 | $104K | 5.6% | 5.4% | <1% | B+ |
| 744 | Bridgeport WI | 1,006 | $96K | 2.1% | 2.4% | 8% | B+ |
| 745 | Shandon CA | 1,169 | $107K | 1.6% | 10.4% | 1% | B+ |
| 746 | Loma CO | 1,350 | $141K | 5.9% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 747 | Bevil Oaks TX | 1,042 | $91K | 7.7% | 6.8% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Shandon, 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 Shandon: questions
What is the median household income in Shandon?
$107,273 (±$26,603) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shandon?
1.6%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shandon?
29 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shandon work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) (21%, 15 mi), Atascadero (12%, 21 mi), San Luis Obispo (10%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Shandon walkable?
Shandon is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shandon 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 Shandon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shandon
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.