Photo: Doc Searls · CC BY 2.0Silver Lakes has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Silver Lakes has 302 jobs for 1,812 working residents. The two grades for Silver Lakes are B for jobs and income and C for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Silver Lakes in brief
A big share show a job far from home
61% 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 ↓
Silver Lakes workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 42 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 322 hours of commuting, 100 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Silver Lakes’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Silver Lakes is Los Angeles, 79 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (143) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Silver Lakes
59% of Silver Lakes residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 28% of the jobs based in Silver Lakes pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 94% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Silver Lakes is a place people come home to
There are 302 jobs based in Silver Lakes, 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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Silver Lakes
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Silver Lakes is better than 56% of U.S. towns, #447 of 847 in California. Household income holds Silver Lakes’ grade up ($115,829, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Silver Lakes could be anywhere from C to A−.
Short hops and long hauls from Silver Lakes
About 61% 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.
Getting to work from Silver Lakes takes about 42 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Silver Lakes workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,730 commuters (the 4% 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.
The kinds of work in Silver Lakes
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Silver Lakes, 2013 → 2023: 472 → 302. 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 Silver Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Silver Lakes for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,707 residents head out to work, 105 work right here, and 197 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,500 people are in Silver Lakes on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
8% of working residents work in Los Angeles
Where Silver Lakes clocks in
8% 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.
In Silver Lakes, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Silver Lakes is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns, #761 of 847 in California. 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 2,837 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 61% 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 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% 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). 1.6% of Silver Lakes households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Silver Lakes’ commuters take a bus or train.
1,630th of 3,167: where Silver Lakes ranks among U.S. towns of 4,900 to 9,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 60 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 113 | La Habra Heights CA | 5,327 | $180K | 4.9% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,628 | Richland Township IN | 5,232 | $64K | 3.0% | 5.3% | 1% | B |
| 1,629 | Clay Township OH | 8,910 | $76K | 7.8% | 5.4% | 12% | B |
| 1,630 | Silver Lakes CA | 6,977 | $116K | 4.9% | 5.2% | 6% | B |
| 1,631 | Chatsworth GA | 5,029 | $69K | 15.7% | 1.0% | 11% | B |
| 1,632 | Brockport NY | 7,736 | $70K | 16.1% | 2.7% | 11% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,167 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Silver Lakes, 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 Silver Lakes: questions
What is the median household income in Silver Lakes?
$115,829 (±$14,659) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Silver Lakes?
4.9%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Silver Lakes?
42 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Silver Lakes work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Los Angeles (8%, 79 mi), Victorville (8%, 15 mi), San Bernardino (4%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Silver Lakes walkable?
Silver Lakes is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Silver Lakes 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 Silver Lakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Silver Lakes
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.