Terra Bella draws 1,430 commuters a day, with 2.6 jobs for every working resident
There are 1,474 jobs in Terra Bella; 578 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Terra Bella are C− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Home is the office for 7% of workers (California 17%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Terra Bella and work: the main findings
Terra Bella makes and builds things
81% of the jobs based in Terra Bella are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Terra Bella residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
Terra Bella is where the jobs are
Terra Bella has 1,474 jobs, 2.6 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,600 people are in town, 54% more than the 1,700 who live here. Day and night ↓
Terra Bella and Porterville trade workers both ways
Porterville is the top workplace for Terra Bella residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Terra Bella come from (40% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 578 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Terra Bella’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Terra Bella is better than 19% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Terra Bella’s grade.
Unemployment (32.4%) is left out: Terra Bella’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, Terra Bella could be anywhere from D to B.
Making and building: 81% of jobs based in Terra Bella
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Terra Bella, 2013 → 2023: 869 → 1,474. 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 Terra Bella’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Terra Bella, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 534 residents head out to work and 44 work right here.
About 2,600 people are in Terra Bella on a workday afternoon, 54% more 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.
Who travels to work in Terra Bella, and from where
Where Terra Bella clocks in
17% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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 trip to work from Terra Bella: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Terra Bella workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 441 commuters (the 7% 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 Terra Bella
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.
Driving is how Terra Bella gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Terra Bella is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 474 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). 5.2% of Terra Bella households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Terra Bella’s commuters take a bus or train.
Terra Bella next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,200: 3,859th of 5,381 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Irwindale CA | 1,439 | $114K | 4.3% | 6.5% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,857 | Stuyvesant NY | 1,882 | $66K | 12.6% | 7.3% | 2% | C− |
| 3,858 | Wayne Township PA | 1,497 | $73K | 13.2% | 2.4% | 3% | C− |
| 3,859 | Terra Bella CA | 1,659 | $63K | 17.0% | 32.4% | 8% | C− |
| 3,860 | Brush Creek Township OH | 1,268 | $53K | 10.5% | 0.0% | 0% | C− |
| 3,861 | Anza CA | 1,898 | $84K | 10.5% | 11.1% | 7% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,381 | 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 Terra Bella, 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 Terra Bella: questions
What is the median household income in Terra Bella?
$62,530 (±$25,135) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Terra Bella?
17.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Terra Bella?
21 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Terra Bella work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Porterville (17%, 7 mi), Visalia (6%, 30 mi), Fresno (5%, 71 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Terra Bella walkable?
Terra Bella is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Terra Bella without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Terra Bella, from the people who make the trip.
More of Terra Bella
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.