Photo: David Jordan at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs, income and commuting in Tres Pinos, CA
There are 123 jobs in Tres Pinos, and 174 of its residents work somewhere. Only 1% work in Tres Pinos; the top destination outside it is Hollister (18%, 7 miles). The trip to work takes 49 minutes on average; California averages 29, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Tres Pinos
On a workday 172 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 121 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.
0.71 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Tres Pinos’ residents
Where Tres Pinos clocks in
18% of workers
13% of workers
10% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tres Pinos, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 123. 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 Tres Pinos’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 49 minutes each way for Tres Pinos’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 15.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tres Pinos workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 404 commuters (the 19% 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.
The commute from Tres Pinos, by distance
About 25% 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.
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 Tres Pinos: questions
What is the poverty rate in Tres Pinos?
0.2%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tres Pinos?
49 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tres Pinos work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hollister (18%, 7 mi), San Jose (13%, 45 mi), Salinas (10%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Tres Pinos without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tres Pinos, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tres Pinos
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.