Photo: LittleT889 · CC BY-SA 4.0Shingletown has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
136 jobs are based in Shingletown, and 562 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Shingletown is better than 20% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 17% of U.S. towns (C−). Only 7% work in Shingletown; the top destination outside it is Redding (38%, 27 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Shingletown at work: what stands out
38% of Shingletown works in Redding
211 working residents, 38%, have their main job in Redding, 27 miles away. That’s 5 times as many as work in Shingletown itself. The commute map ↓
Shingletown is a place people come home to
There are 136 jobs based in Shingletown, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. 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 562 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Shingletown’s Jobs & income grade comes from
The poverty rate holds Shingletown’s grade up (10.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (7.7%) is left out: Shingletown’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, Shingletown could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Where Shingletown goes to work
Where Shingletown clocks in
38% of workers
4% 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.
A workday in Shingletown: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 525 residents head out to work, 37 work right here, and 99 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Shingletown on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
What Shingletown’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shingletown, 2013 → 2023: 75 → 136. 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 Shingletown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 33 minutes in Shingletown
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shingletown workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 610 commuters (the 22% 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.
Where in the region Shingletown works
About 23% 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.
Most trips from Shingletown start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 3.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 784 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). 2.0% of Shingletown households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Shingletown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Shingletown is 4,003rd of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Del Rio CA | 1,508 | $250K | 0.0% | 2.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,001 | Willsboro NY | 1,831 | $70K | 12.1% | 2.0% | 24% | C− |
| 4,002 | Sanford NY | 2,162 | $77K | 16.4% | 1.5% | 10% | C− |
| 4,003 | Shingletown CA | 2,164 | $67K | 10.4% | 7.7% | 7% | C− |
| 4,004 | Luzerne PA | 2,744 | $42K | 19.9% | 6.4% | 5% | C− |
| 4,005 | Lyford TX | 2,210 | $56K | 20.8% | 7.3% | 11% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | 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 Shingletown, 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 Shingletown: questions
What is the median household income in Shingletown?
$66,635 (±$24,294) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shingletown?
10.4%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shingletown?
33 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shingletown work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Redding (38%, 27 mi), Anderson (4%, 23 mi), Red Bluff (3%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Shingletown walkable?
Shingletown is more walkable than 17% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shingletown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shingletown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shingletown
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.