Photo: Nicolasam · CC BY-SA 3.0Where Walnut Grove earns its living
The trip to work takes 34 minutes on average; California averages 29, the U.S. 26. Only 6% work in Walnut Grove itself; outside it, Sacramento draws the most (17%, 22 miles). Walnut Grove has 372 jobs; 466 of its residents have a job.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Walnut Grove at work: what stands out
Walnut Grove and Sacramento trade workers both ways
Sacramento is the top workplace for Walnut Grove residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Walnut Grove come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Walnut Grove makes and builds things
37% of the jobs based in Walnut Grove are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Walnut Grove residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 25%. The jobs ↓
Walnut Grove workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 466 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Walnut Grove goes to work
Where Walnut Grove clocks in
17% of workers
4% 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.
Goods, not services: 37% of the jobs in Walnut Grove
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Walnut Grove, 2013 → 2023: 441 → 372. 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 Walnut Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Walnut Grove: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Walnut Grove workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 396 commuters (the 18% 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.
Walnut Grove quiets down on a workday
On a workday 436 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 342 people come in from elsewhere.
About 830 people are in Walnut Grove on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 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.
How many miles Walnut Grove commutes
About 24% 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 Walnut Grove: questions
What is the median household income in Walnut Grove?
$78,878 (±$23,683) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Walnut Grove?
17.9%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Walnut Grove?
34 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Walnut Grove work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (17%, 22 mi), Stockton (4%, 23 mi), Elk Grove (4%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Walnut Grove 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 Walnut Grove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Walnut Grove
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.