Photo: Dr vulpes · CC BY-SA 4.0Yosemite Lakes has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Employers in Yosemite Lakes report 330 jobs, against 1,861 working residents. Yosemite Lakes grades B for jobs and income and D for walkability. Measured by household income, Yosemite Lakes is ahead of 75% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Yosemite Lakes at work: what stands out
Yosemite Lakes’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Yosemite Lakes is Fresno, 28 miles away as the crow flies. 24% of working residents (445) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Yosemite Lakes workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 38 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 291 hours of commuting, 69 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Yosemite Lakes is a place people come home to
There are 330 jobs based in Yosemite Lakes, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Yosemite Lakes has about 3,800 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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.
What’s behind Yosemite Lakes’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Yosemite Lakes is better than 58% of U.S. towns, #424 of 847 in California. Household income holds Yosemite Lakes’ grade up ($97,813, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Yosemite Lakes could be anywhere from C to A−.
The distance from Yosemite Lakes to work
About 26% 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.
A commute of about 38 minutes in Yosemite Lakes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Yosemite Lakes workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,999 commuters (the 17% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Yosemite Lakes
On a workday 1,738 residents head out to work, 123 work right here, and 207 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,800 people are in Yosemite Lakes on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
24% of working residents work in Fresno
Where Yosemite Lakes clocks in
24% of workers
9% 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.
Jobs in Yosemite Lakes: what the 330 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yosemite Lakes, 2013 → 2023: 242 → 330. 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 Yosemite Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Yosemite Lakes, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Yosemite Lakes is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns, #836 of 847 in California. Both inputs place Yosemite Lakes near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,399 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 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% 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). 0.0% of Yosemite Lakes households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Yosemite Lakes’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Yosemite Lakes ranks: 1,670th of 3,582 U.S. towns of 3,700 to 7,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Del Mar CA | 3,858 | $199K | 2.7% | 1.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,668 | Delmar MD | 4,896 | $85K | 10.0% | 4.1% | 1% | B |
| 1,669 | Patton Township IL | 5,104 | $67K | 7.7% | 1.9% | 23% | B |
| 1,670 | Yosemite Lakes CA | 5,288 | $98K | 7.3% | 2.7% | 7% | B |
| 1,671 | Laguna Beach FL | 3,830 | $77K | 5.5% | 2.8% | 4% | B |
| 1,672 | Chester Township IN | 6,958 | $67K | 8.7% | 1.6% | 33% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,582 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Yosemite Lakes, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Yosemite Lakes and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Coarsegold (6%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Yosemite Lakes workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yosemite Lakes | – | B | D | 38 min | $97,813 |
| Coarsegold | 6% | C+ | C | 43 min | $80,861 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Yosemite Lakes’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 Yosemite Lakes: questions
What is the median household income in Yosemite Lakes?
$97,813 (±$10,289) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yosemite Lakes?
7.3%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Yosemite Lakes?
38 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Yosemite Lakes work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fresno (24%, 28 mi), Oakhurst (9%, 13 mi), Coarsegold (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Yosemite Lakes walkable?
Yosemite Lakes is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Yosemite Lakes without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Yosemite Lakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yosemite Lakes
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.