Photo: Sanfranman59 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Temelec commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Temelec has 38 jobs, against 395 working residents. The two grades for Temelec are B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 49% of workers, against 17% across California.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Temelec and work: the main findings
Home offices are common in Temelec
49% of Temelec workers work from home, against 17% across California. Time on the road ↓
Temelec is a place people come home to
There are 38 jobs based in Temelec, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Temelec’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Temelec is San Francisco, 34 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (36) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. 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 395 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Temelec
On income, poverty and job access, Temelec is better than 60% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Temelec’s grade up (5.5%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($67,582, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (20.4%) is left out: Temelec’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Temelec could be anywhere from C to A−.
Temelec’s commute takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Temelec workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 227 commuters (the 49% 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.
Temelec by day and by night
On a workday 393 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 36 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Temelec on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Temelec
About 24% 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.
9% of working residents work in San Francisco
Where Temelec clocks in
7% of workers
6% 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: 66% of jobs based in Temelec
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Temelec, 2013 → 2023: 100 → 38. 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 Temelec’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Temelec, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Temelec is more walkable than 39% 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 442 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 90% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 90% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 61% 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). 17.7% of Temelec households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Temelec’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200, Temelec comes 1,703rd 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 76 | Irwindale CA | 1,439 | $114K | 4.3% | 6.5% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,701 | Upper Mifflin Township PA | 1,381 | $83K | 8.1% | 2.4% | 2% | B |
| 1,702 | Locust Township PA | 1,456 | $72K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,703 | Temelec CA | 1,628 | $68K | 5.5% | 20.4% | 1% | B |
| 1,704 | Mazomanie WI | 1,746 | $86K | 10.0% | 1.7% | 7% | B |
| 1,705 | Black Diamond FL | 1,298 | $96K | 6.7% | 12.1% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Temelec, the top three, the last and three more from California.
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 Temelec: questions
What is the median household income in Temelec?
$67,582 (±$13,490) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Temelec?
5.5%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Temelec?
24 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 49% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Temelec work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Francisco (9%, 34 mi), Sonoma (7%, 3 mi), Santa Rosa (6%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Temelec walkable?
Temelec is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Temelec without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. 90% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Temelec, from the people who make the trip.
More of Temelec
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.