Most of South Dos Palos commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
There are 35 jobs in South Dos Palos, against 424 working residents. Getting around South Dos Palos on foot earns C+. Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers (California 17%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where South Dos Palos stands out on work
South Dos Palos is a place people come home to
There are 35 jobs based in South Dos Palos, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday South Dos Palos has about 710 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
43% 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 424 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
South Dos Palos on a workday afternoon
On a workday 422 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 33 people come in from elsewhere.
About 710 people are in South Dos Palos on a workday afternoon, 35% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Miles to work from South Dos Palos
About 43% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
14% of working residents work in Dos Palos
Where South Dos Palos clocks in
14% of workers
8% of workers
7% 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.
What South Dos Palos’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in South Dos Palos, 2014 → 2024: 14 → 35. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs South Dos Palos’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 30 minutes to work from South Dos Palos
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of South Dos Palos workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 312 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.
For most of South Dos Palos, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, South Dos Palos is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns. 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 339 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 45% 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). 6.0% of South Dos Palos households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of South Dos Palos’ commuters take a bus or train.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 South Dos Palos: questions
What is the poverty rate in South Dos Palos?
47.5%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from South Dos Palos?
30 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in South Dos Palos work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dos Palos (14%, 1 mi), Los Banos (8%, 12 mi), Fresno (7%, 49 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is South Dos Palos walkable?
South Dos Palos is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 10.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around South Dos Palos without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from South Dos Palos, from the people who make the trip.
More of South Dos Palos
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.