Jobs and earnings in Warm Springs, and the trip to work
The two grades for Warm Springs are C+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Hardly any work in Warm Springs itself; outside it, Lake Elsinore draws the most (9%, 1 miles). For 10% of workers, the job is at home, 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 Warm Springs, in brief
The better-paid jobs are outside Warm Springs
63% of Warm Springs residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 44% of the jobs based in Warm Springs pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 100% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Warm Springs workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 36 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 276 hours of commuting, 54 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 628 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Warm Springs gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Warm Springs is better than 39% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Warm Springs’ grade up (ahead of 75% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (24.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (7.3%) is left out: Warm Springs’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Warm Springs could be anywhere from C− to B+.
What work there is in Warm Springs: 430 jobs
430 jobs are based in Warm Springs.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Warm Springs, 2013 → 2023: 160 → 430. 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 Warm Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Warm Springs: about 36 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Warm Springs workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 591 commuters (the 10% 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.
A workday in Warm Springs: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 626 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 428 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Warm Springs on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.68 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.
Out of Warm Springs to work: where people go
Where Warm Springs clocks in
9% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
How far Warm Springs goes to work
About 18% 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.
Warm Springs is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Warm Springs is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 658 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 7.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 90% 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). 4.1% of Warm Springs households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Warm Springs’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300, Warm Springs comes 2,861st on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Irwindale CA | 1,439 | $114K | 4.3% | 6.5% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,859 | Watson Township MI | 2,264 | $65K | 16.3% | 1.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,860 | Arthur Township MN | 1,856 | $72K | 7.1% | 7.9% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,861 | Warm Springs CA | 1,673 | $70K | 24.0% | 7.3% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,862 | Petersburg IL | 2,125 | $56K | 15.7% | 1.4% | 16% | C+ |
| 2,863 | Livingston LA | 2,006 | $62K | 16.3% | 2.6% | 14% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Warm Springs, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Work in the towns next to Warm Springs
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Warm Springs workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warm Springs | – | C+ | C+ | 36 min | $70,341 |
| Lake Elsinore | 9% | B | B+ | 43 min | $101,888 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Lake Elsinore. Darker towns draw more of Warm Springs’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 Warm Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Warm Springs?
$70,341 (±$40,579) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Warm Springs?
24.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Warm Springs?
36 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Warm Springs work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lake Elsinore (9%, 1 mi), Riverside (6%, 16 mi), Temecula (5%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Warm Springs walkable?
Warm Springs is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 9.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Warm Springs 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 Warm Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Warm Springs
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.