Strathmore’s household incomes are lower than in 94% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income D: better than 10% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access · #789 of 847 in California.
Walkability B: more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns · #607 of 847 in California.
Working residents average 24 minutes each way (California 29, U.S. 26). Only 3% work in Strathmore; the top destination outside it is Porterville (19%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Strathmore, in brief
Strathmore and Porterville trade workers both ways
Porterville is the top workplace for Strathmore residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Strathmore come from (25% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Strathmore makes and builds things
51% of the jobs based in Strathmore are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Strathmore residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 33%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Strathmore are quick
The average trip to work takes 24 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical California worker. Time on the road ↓
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 834 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Strathmore’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Strathmore is better than 10% of U.S. towns, #789 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Strathmore’s grade up (ahead of 49% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (32.6%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (9.9%) is left out: Strathmore’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Strathmore stays D.
19% of working residents work in Porterville
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Strathmore clocks in
19% of workers
12% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Strathmore makes things: 51% of its jobs are in goods
580 jobs are based in Strathmore. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Strathmore’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Strathmore, 2013 → 2023: 578 → 580. 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.
About 24 minutes each way, quicker than most of California
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Strathmore workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 487 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across California: 79% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 806 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 552 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.70 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Half of Strathmore commutes less than 17 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 28% 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.
Most trips from Strathmore start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Strathmore is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns, #607 of 847 in California. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 5.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 518 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 0.0 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 Strathmore households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Strathmore’s commuters take a bus or train.
Strathmore is 4,238th of 4,797 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Strathmore, the top three, the last and three more from California.
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Ross CA | 2,304 | $250K | 4.8% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 107 | Fairbanks Ranch CA | 2,703 | $250K | 5.5% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,236 | Aetna Township MI | 2,357 | $63K | 30.3% | 5.7% | 3% | D |
| 4,237 | Johnson VT | 3,369 | $55K | 12.2% | 9.5% | 10% | D |
| 4,238 | Strathmore CA | 2,675 | $43K | 32.6% | 9.9% | 3% | D |
| 4,239 | Irvine KY | 2,273 | $43K | 19.4% | 5.4% | 11% | D |
| 4,240 | Canton MO | 2,763 | $55K | 15.1% | 11.0% | 23% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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.
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 Strathmore: questions
What is the median household income in Strathmore?
$43,387 (±$10,014) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Strathmore?
32.6%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Strathmore?
24 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Strathmore work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Porterville (19%, 6 mi), Visalia (12%, 19 mi), Lindsay (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Strathmore walkable?
Strathmore is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Strathmore 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 Strathmore, from the people who make the trip.
More of Strathmore
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.