Most of Sheridan commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
There are 263 jobs in Sheridan for 562 working residents. Jobs and income earn Sheridan C+; getting around on foot earns it D−. Only 1% work in Sheridan; the top destination outside it is Roseville (14%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Sheridan, in brief
The four measures behind Sheridan’s grade
On family income, poverty and job access, Sheridan is better than 41% of U.S. towns. Family income holds Sheridan’s grade up ($107,639, U.S. $99,999); the poverty rate pulls it down (14.9%, U.S. 11.9%).
18% of Sheridan’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (18% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 14.9%, against 12.3% for all residents. Unemployment (9.9%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($107,639), since student households pull the household median down ($95,652).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Sheridan could be anywhere from D to A.
About 23 minutes each way, quicker than most of California
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sheridan workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 547 commuters (the 12% 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.
Sheridan quiets down on a workday
On a workday 554 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 255 people come in from elsewhere.
About 880 people are in Sheridan on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
The towns that employ Sheridan’s residents
Where Sheridan clocks in
14% of workers
9% 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.
Making and building: 70% of jobs based in Sheridan
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sheridan, 2013 → 2023: 194 → 263. 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 Sheridan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Sheridan works
About 20% 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 Sheridan, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sheridan is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Sheridan near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 622 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 Sheridan households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sheridan’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600, Sheridan comes 1,877th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,875 | Edwards Township MI | 1,396 | $72K | 4.8% | 1.7% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,876 | Albion Township MI | 1,086 | $76K | 11.1% | 1.1% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,877 | Sheridan CA | 1,183 | $96K | 12.3% | 9.9% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,878 | Exeter ME | 1,002 | $84K | 8.1% | 2.4% | 6% | C+ |
| 1,879 | Hudson ME | 1,483 | $68K | 6.5% | 0.5% | 3% | 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 Sheridan, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Bordering towns draw 10% of Sheridan’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Lincoln. Darker towns draw more of Sheridan’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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.
- Students. 18% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Sheridan: questions
What is the median household income in Sheridan?
$95,652 (±$32,286) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sheridan?
12.3% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 14.9%. California: 12.0%.
How long is the commute from Sheridan?
23 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sheridan work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Roseville (14%, 14 mi), Lincoln (10%, 7 mi), Sacramento (9%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sheridan walkable?
Sheridan is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sheridan 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 Sheridan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sheridan
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.