With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Vineyard works elsewhere
Household incomes here are higher than in 81% of U.S. towns. Vineyard has 3,840 jobs for 19,789 working residents. For jobs and income Vineyard is better than 65% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Vineyard and work: the main findings
Vineyard and Sacramento trade workers both ways
Sacramento is the top workplace for Vineyard residents (29%) and also where the most people who work in Vineyard come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Vineyard has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Vineyard went from 2,310 in 2013 to 3,840 in 2023, +66%. The jobs ↓
Vineyard is a place people come home to
There are 3,840 jobs based in Vineyard, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Vineyard has about 28,000 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Vineyard
66% of Vineyard residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 42% of the jobs based in Vineyard pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 97% leave town for their job. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Vineyard
Job access by car holds Vineyard’s grade up (ahead of 87% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (5.6%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Vineyard could be anywhere from B− to A−.
29% of working residents work in Sacramento
Where Vineyard clocks in
29% of workers
8% 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.
What Vineyard’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vineyard, 2013 → 2023: 2,310 → 3,840. 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 Vineyard’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Vineyard, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 19,133 residents head out to work, 656 work right here, and 3,184 people come in from elsewhere.
About 28,000 people are in Vineyard on a workday afternoon, 36% 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.
From Vineyard, about 29 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vineyard workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 17,045 commuters (the 15% 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 distance from Vineyard to work
About 21% 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 Vineyard walk, bike or ride to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.1% 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 20,000 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 41% 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). 3.3% of Vineyard households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Vineyard’s commuters take a bus or train.
528th of 985: where Vineyard ranks among U.S. towns of 31,000 to 59,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | 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+ |
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| 53 | Manhattan Beach CA | 33,122 | $204K | 4.5% | 3.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Cupertino CA | 58,333 | $235K | 4.1% | 4.0% | 11% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Newark CA | 47,895 | $169K | 4.3% | 4.3% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 526 | West Warwick RI | 31,487 | $78K | 9.6% | 4.2% | 8% | B+ |
| 527 | Merritt Island FL | 34,992 | $94K | 7.4% | 4.1% | 10% | B+ |
| 528 | Vineyard CA | 43,751 | $105K | 11.6% | 5.6% | 3% | B+ |
| 529 | Mauldin SC | 31,465 | $82K | 8.4% | 4.9% | 8% | B+ |
| 530 | West Seneca NY | 45,469 | $80K | 8.8% | 4.7% | 12% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 985 | 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 Vineyard, the top three, the last and three more from California.
12% of Vineyard works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Elk Grove (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Vineyard’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 Vineyard: questions
What is the median household income in Vineyard?
$105,313 (±$7,137) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vineyard?
11.6%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vineyard?
29 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vineyard work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (29%, 10 mi), Elk Grove (8%, 5 mi), Rancho Cordova (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Vineyard walkable?
Vineyard is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Vineyard without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vineyard, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vineyard
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.