Vina draws 343 commuters a day, with 6.6 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 70% of workers; California has 17%. 343 jobs are based in Vina, and 52 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Vina for work; outside it, Orland is the main destination (6%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Vina
On a workday 52 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 530 people are in Vina on a workday afternoon, 120% 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.
Where Vina’s workers come from
Where Vina clocks in
6% 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.
Vina works in goods: 95% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vina, 2013 → 2023: 9 → 343. 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 Vina’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Vina
of Vina workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 25 commuters (the 70% 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 Vina, by distance
About 33% 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 Vina: questions
What is the median household income in Vina?
$40,811 (±$4,978) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vina?
49.8%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Vina work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orland (6%, 15 mi), Corning (6%, 7 mi), Red Bluff (6%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Vina without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vina, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vina
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.