Squirrel Mountain Valley has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Squirrel Mountain Valley grades D− for walkability. There are 34 jobs in Squirrel Mountain Valley, and 185 of its residents work somewhere. For 5% of workers, the job is at home; California has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Squirrel Mountain Valley on a workday
On a workday 182 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 960 people are in Squirrel Mountain Valley on a workday afternoon, 14% 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.
12% of working residents work in Mountain Mesa
Where Squirrel Mountain Valley clocks in
12% of workers
11% 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: 35% of jobs based in Squirrel Mountain Valley
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Squirrel Mountain Valley, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 34. 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 Squirrel Mountain Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Squirrel Mountain Valley’s commute takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Squirrel Mountain Valley workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 256 commuters (the 5% 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.
How far Squirrel Mountain Valley goes to work
About 42% 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.
Driving is how Squirrel Mountain Valley gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Squirrel Mountain Valley is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Squirrel Mountain Valley 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 270 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). 10.5% of Squirrel Mountain Valley households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Squirrel Mountain Valley’s 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 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 Squirrel Mountain Valley: questions
What is the poverty rate in Squirrel Mountain Valley?
2.1%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Squirrel Mountain Valley?
28 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Squirrel Mountain Valley work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mountain Mesa (12%, 2 mi), Lake Isabella (11%, 5 mi), Bakersfield (11%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Squirrel Mountain Valley walkable?
Squirrel Mountain Valley is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Squirrel Mountain Valley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Squirrel Mountain Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Squirrel Mountain Valley
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.