Photo: Chmee2 · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Yreka trail those of 93% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 17.0%, where California as a whole has 12.0%. Jobs and income earn Yreka D−; getting around on foot earns it B+. For 5% of workers, the job is at home (California 17%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Yreka
What’s behind Yreka’s Jobs & income grade
All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Yreka’s grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Yreka could be anywhere from D− to C.
Getting to work from Yreka takes about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Yreka workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,767 commuters (the 5% 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.
How many people are in Yreka by day
On a workday 1,386 residents head out to work, 1,551 work right here, and 2,746 people come in from elsewhere.
About 9,100 people are in Yreka on a workday afternoon, 18% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.46 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.
Where Yreka goes to work
Where Yreka clocks in
4% of workers
2% 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 the 4,297 jobs in Yreka are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yreka, 2013 → 2023: 3,477 → 4,297. 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 Yreka’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Yreka 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.
Most trips from Yreka start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Yreka is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns, #561 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.8% 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 2,918 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 48% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 7% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 54% 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). 9.3% of Yreka households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Yreka’s commuters take a bus or train.
Yreka and other U.S. towns of 5,400 to 10,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 68 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 193 | Lucas Valley-Marinwood CA | 6,473 | $201K | 4.2% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,980 | Stockton Township IN | 8,254 | $47K | 16.5% | 9.7% | 23% | D |
| 2,981 | Earlimart CA | 7,214 | $53K | 21.8% | 24.9% | 5% | D |
| 2,982 | Yreka CA | 7,714 | $44K | 17.0% | 7.5% | 53% | D− |
| 2,983 | Perry FL | 7,330 | $41K | 18.9% | 6.4% | 29% | D− |
| 2,984 | Harrisburg IL | 7,922 | $43K | 29.0% | 9.5% | 26% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,051 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Yreka, 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 Yreka: questions
What is the median household income in Yreka?
$43,982 (±$10,701) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yreka?
17.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Yreka?
16 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Yreka work?
53% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Redding (4%, 81 mi), Weed (2%, 25 mi), Happy Camp (2%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Yreka walkable?
Yreka is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 10.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Yreka without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 7% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Yreka, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yreka
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.