Most of Taft Heights commutes out: there are 0.0 jobs for every working resident
There are 12 jobs in Taft Heights; 581 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Taft Heights are D for jobs and income and C for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Taft Heights, in a few figures
Taft Heights is a place people come home to
There are 12 jobs based in Taft Heights, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Taft Heights has about 720 people in it, 44% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Taft Heights and Taft trade workers both ways
Taft is the top workplace for Taft Heights residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Taft Heights come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
35% 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 581 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Taft Heights’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Taft Heights is better than 9% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Taft Heights’ grade.
Unemployment (12.8%) is left out: Taft Heights’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Taft Heights could be anywhere from D− to C−.
The daily flow of workers through Taft Heights
On a workday 578 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 720 people are in Taft Heights on a workday afternoon, 44% 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.
23% of working residents work in Taft
Where Taft Heights clocks in
23% of workers
20% of workers
2% 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.
The distance from Taft Heights to work
About 35% 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.
Taft Heights is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Taft Heights, 2013 → 2023: 13 → 12. 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 Taft Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 21 minutes to work from Taft Heights
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Taft Heights workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 470 commuters (the 0% 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.
Most of Taft Heights commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Taft Heights is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Taft Heights 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 470 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). 2.9% of Taft Heights households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Taft Heights’ commuters take a bus or train.
Taft Heights is 4,109th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Castle Hill CA | 1,026 | $250K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 16 | Acalanes Ridge CA | 1,006 | $181K | 1.5% | 7.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,107 | Meeker OK | 1,031 | $41K | 25.2% | 4.1% | 5% | D |
| 4,108 | Montello WI | 1,447 | $56K | 20.0% | 3.7% | 18% | D |
| 4,109 | Taft Heights CA | 1,291 | $54K | 16.2% | 12.8% | 1% | D |
| 4,110 | Maxwell CA | 1,245 | $68K | 20.5% | 10.2% | 5% | D |
| 4,111 | Weeki Wachee Gardens FL | 1,068 | $57K | 46.0% | 31.3% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Taft Heights, the top three, the last and three more from California.
The towns next door employ 25% of Taft Heights
The biggest share goes to Taft (23%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Taft Heights workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taft Heights | – | D | C | 21 min | $54,034 |
| Taft | 23% | C− | A | 19 min | $72,772 |
| South Taft | 2% | D− | B+ | 37 min | $43,039 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Taft Heights’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 Taft Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Taft Heights?
$54,034 (±$8,826) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Taft Heights?
16.2%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Taft Heights?
21 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Taft Heights work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Taft (23%, 3 mi), Bakersfield (20%, 29 mi), Fresno (2%, 115 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Taft Heights walkable?
Taft Heights is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Taft Heights without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Taft Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Taft Heights
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.