Tipton has lower household incomes than 93% of U.S. towns
31.1% of residents live below the poverty line, where California as a whole has 12.0%. Tipton grades D for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Home is the office for <1% of workers, against 17% across California.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Tipton, in brief
Jobs in Tipton have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Tipton went from 374 in 2013 to 878 in 2023, +135%. The jobs ↓
Tipton makes and builds things
70% of the jobs based in Tipton are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Tipton residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 41%. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Tipton pay little
39% of the jobs based in Tipton pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
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 674 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How Tipton earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Tipton is better than 6% of U.S. towns, #810 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Tipton’s grade up (ahead of 45% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Tipton could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Tipton works in goods: 70% of its jobs
878 jobs are based in Tipton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tipton, 2013 → 2023: 374 → 878. 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 Tipton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Tipton on a workday afternoon
On a workday 625 residents head out to work, 49 work right here, and 829 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.30 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Visalia
Where Tipton clocks in
10% of workers
8% 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.
About 19 minutes each way, quicker than most of California
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tipton workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,164 commuters (the <1% 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.
How far Tipton goes to work
About 30% 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.
Few in Tipton walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tipton is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns, #571 of 847 in California. Both inputs place Tipton 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 1,168 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). 4.0% of Tipton households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tipton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Tipton next to U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 87 | Ross CA | 2,304 | $250K | 4.8% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 113 | Fairbanks Ranch CA | 2,703 | $250K | 5.5% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,352 | Union Township MO | 2,179 | $54K | 17.2% | 3.9% | 13% | D |
| 4,353 | Texas Township PA | 2,273 | $42K | 20.2% | 4.6% | 11% | D |
| 4,354 | Tipton CA | 2,851 | $45K | 31.1% | 10.4% | 7% | D |
| 4,355 | Trenton FL | 2,296 | $49K | 18.8% | 4.9% | 14% | D |
| 4,356 | West Liberty KY | 3,339 | $48K | 17.4% | 6.3% | 27% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,703 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Tipton, 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 Tipton: questions
What is the median household income in Tipton?
$45,243 (±$12,668) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tipton?
31.1%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tipton?
19 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. <1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tipton work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Visalia (10%, 19 mi), Tulare (8%, 10 mi), Porterville (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tipton walkable?
Tipton is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tipton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tipton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tipton
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.