Work means Fresno for more than half of Sunnyside’s working residents
Sunnyside grades B+ for jobs and income and A for walkability. Measured by household income, Sunnyside is ahead of 86% of U.S. towns. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 6.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 5.7 in Fresno.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Sunnyside, in a few figures
Sunnyside has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Sunnyside went from 389 in 2013 to 757 in 2023, +95%. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Sunnyside
62% of Sunnyside residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 35% of the jobs based in Sunnyside pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 98% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Most Sunnyside residents work close to home
62% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The figures behind Sunnyside’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Sunnyside is better than 65% of U.S. towns, #348 of 847 in California. Household income holds Sunnyside’s grade up ($114,135, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (6.9%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sunnyside could be anywhere from B− to A.
Commuting out of Sunnyside: the destinations
Where Sunnyside clocks in
51% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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.
Jobs in Sunnyside: what the 757 are
757 jobs are based in Sunnyside.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sunnyside, 2013 → 2023: 389 → 757. 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 Sunnyside’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Sunnyside to work
About 19% 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.
Sunnyside by day and by night
On a workday 1,908 residents head out to work, 37 work right here, and 720 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,500 people are in Sunnyside on a workday afternoon, 26% fewer than live here.
0.39 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.
The daily trip from Sunnyside: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sunnyside workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,896 commuters (the 10% 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.
In Sunnyside, walking beats the bus
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 4.2% of 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 2,099 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 80% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 7% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 6.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 88% 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). 3.2% of Sunnyside households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Sunnyside’s commuters take a bus or train.
Sunnyside next to U.S. towns of 3,200 to 6,300: 1,454th of 4,009 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Del Mar CA | 3,858 | $199K | 2.7% | 1.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 79 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,452 | Saratoga NY | 5,859 | $101K | 6.6% | 4.2% | 9% | B+ |
| 1,453 | Wayne Township OH | 4,002 | $85K | 8.1% | 4.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,454 | Sunnyside CA | 4,639 | $114K | 8.8% | 6.9% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,455 | Coplay PA | 3,532 | $62K | 11.9% | 1.6% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,456 | Adams Township IN | 5,241 | $69K | 4.9% | 2.6% | 13% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,009 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Sunnyside, the top three, the last and three more from California.
51% of Sunnyside works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Fresno. Darker towns draw more of Sunnyside’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Sunnyside: questions
What is the median household income in Sunnyside?
$114,135 (±$25,223) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sunnyside?
8.8%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sunnyside?
27 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sunnyside work?
2% work in town.
Is Sunnyside walkable?
Sunnyside is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 11.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sunnyside without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 7% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sunnyside, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sunnyside
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.