Photo: Deusexes · CC BY-SA 4.0Temple City has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
5,653 jobs are based in Temple City, and 14,635 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Temple City B+; getting around on foot earns it A. Measured by household income, Temple City is ahead of 80% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Temple City
The four measures behind Temple City’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Temple City is better than 72% of U.S. towns, #274 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Temple City’s grade up (ahead of 98% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Temple City could be anywhere from B to A−.
What Temple City’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Temple City, 2013 → 2023: 5,779 → 5,653. 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 Temple City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Temple City
On a workday 13,717 residents head out to work, 918 work right here, and 4,735 people come in from elsewhere.
About 26,000 people are in Temple City on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
22% of working residents work in Los Angeles
Where Temple City clocks in
6% of workers
4% 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.
Temple City’s commute takes about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Temple City workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 13,840 commuters (the 16% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Temple City
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.
In Temple City, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Temple City is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns, #195 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 5.0% 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 16,568 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 40% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 74% 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 Temple City households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Temple City’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 25,000 to 47,000, Temple City ranks 562nd of 1,194 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 79 | Manhattan Beach CA | 33,122 | $204K | 4.5% | 3.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 87 | Saratoga CA | 30,418 | $250K | 3.3% | 4.0% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 107 | Lafayette CA | 25,313 | $228K | 2.9% | 4.3% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 560 | DeWitt NY | 25,487 | $92K | 8.8% | 4.1% | 20% | B+ |
| 561 | French Valley CA | 45,269 | $149K | 4.9% | 6.5% | 4% | B+ |
| 562 | Temple City CA | 35,125 | $104K | 8.7% | 6.4% | 6% | B+ |
| 563 | Northglenn CO | 38,893 | $84K | 10.2% | 3.7% | 4% | B+ |
| 564 | Newberg OR | 26,896 | $93K | 7.1% | 3.9% | 20% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,194 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Temple City, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Work next door: 10% of Temple City’s workers
The biggest share goes to Arcadia (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Temple City workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temple City | – | B+ | A | 31 min | $104,425 |
| Arcadia | 4% | A− | A | 29 min | $113,516 |
| East San Gabriel | under 2% | B+ | A | 30 min | $108,677 |
| El Monte | 4% | C+ | A | 28 min | $68,030 |
| North El Monte | under 2% | A− | A− | 27 min | $99,447 |
| San Gabriel | 2% | B+ | A | 28 min | $90,488 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Temple City’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 Temple City: questions
What is the median household income in Temple City?
$104,425 (±$6,100) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Temple City?
8.7%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Temple City?
31 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Temple City work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Los Angeles (22%, 21 mi), Pasadena (6%, 6 mi), Arcadia (4%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Temple City walkable?
Temple City is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 14.0 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Temple City without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 40% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Temple City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Temple City
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.