Photo: California Health and Human Services Agency · Public domainYountville has 2.5 jobs for every working resident: 2,273 people commute in to work
About one in ten stay in Yountville for work; outside it, Napa is the main destination (9%, 8 miles). Yountville has 2,366 jobs, against 939 working residents. Jobs and income earn Yountville C+; getting around on foot earns it A−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Yountville stands out on work
Yountville is where the jobs are
Yountville has 2,366 jobs, 2.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 4,600 people are in town, 45% more than the 3,200 who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Yountville are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 29 across California. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical California 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 939 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Yountville
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Yountville is better than 39% of U.S. towns, #590 of 847 in California. Household income holds Yountville’s grade up ($80,342, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (14.7%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Yountville could be anywhere from D to A.
How many people are in Yountville by day
On a workday 846 residents head out to work and 93 work right here.
About 4,600 people are in Yountville on a workday afternoon, 45% 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.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Yountville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Yountville workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,036 commuters (the 21% 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.
Where Yountville’s workforce comes from
Where Yountville clocks in
9% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Yountville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yountville, 2013 → 2023: 2,631 → 2,366. 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 Yountville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Yountville
About 28% 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.
Yountville is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Yountville is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns, #377 of 847 in California. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 24.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,310 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 20% 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). 10.4% of Yountville households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Yountville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Yountville ranks: 2,837th of 4,698 U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Del Mar CA | 3,858 | $199K | 2.7% | 1.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 92 | Ross CA | 2,304 | $250K | 4.8% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,835 | Tomahawk WI | 3,387 | $60K | 12.5% | 1.5% | 26% | C+ |
| 2,836 | Damascus Township PA | 3,699 | $75K | 8.9% | 3.6% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,837 | Yountville CA | 3,198 | $80K | 14.7% | 5.6% | 10% | C+ |
| 2,838 | Fort Gibson OK | 3,814 | $68K | 11.9% | 4.0% | 19% | C+ |
| 2,839 | Glenrock WY | 2,418 | $65K | 6.5% | 4.2% | 27% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,698 | 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 Yountville, the top three, the last and three more from California.
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 Yountville: questions
What is the median household income in Yountville?
$80,342 (±$14,107) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yountville?
14.7%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Yountville?
22 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Yountville work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Napa (9%, 8 mi), San Francisco (7%, 43 mi), St. Helena (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Yountville walkable?
Yountville is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 24% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Yountville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Yountville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yountville
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.