Photo: Ray Bouknight from Sacramento, CA, USA · CC BY 2.0Unemployment in Yuba City (7.0%) is higher than in 82% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Yuba City is better than 30% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (B+). 7% of workers have no commute at all, against 17% across California. About one in four work in Yuba City itself; outside it, Sacramento draws the most (7%, 40 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Inside Yuba City’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Yuba City’s grade up ($75,477, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Yuba City could be anywhere from C− to C+.
How a workday changes Yuba City
On a workday 19,774 residents head out to work, 6,962 work right here, and 13,702 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.77 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 the trip to work from Yuba City ends
Where Yuba City clocks in
7% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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.
Inside Yuba City’s 20,664 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yuba City, 2013 → 2023: 18,251 → 20,664. 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 Yuba City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 27 minutes each way for Yuba City’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Yuba City workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 27,616 commuters (the 7% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Yuba City
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.
Few in Yuba City walk, bike or ride to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.7% 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 29,673 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 79% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 29% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 73% 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). 5.6% of Yuba City households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Yuba City’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Yuba City is 552nd among 634 U.S. towns of 49,000 to 94,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Lakeville MN | 79,270 | $139K | 2.9% | 2.0% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Fulshear TX | 64,630 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Cupertino CA | 58,333 | $235K | 4.1% | 4.0% | 11% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | South San Francisco CA | 64,941 | $137K | 6.7% | 2.8% | 12% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Dublin CA | 71,602 | $214K | 4.5% | 3.8% | 6% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 550 | Midwest City OK | 58,799 | $58K | 16.5% | 7.1% | 12% | C |
| 551 | Union NY | 53,972 | $62K | 16.2% | 5.8% | 29% | C |
| 552 | Yuba City CA | 69,485 | $75K | 14.3% | 7.0% | 26% | C |
| 553 | Dothan AL | 72,060 | $56K | 19.3% | 4.3% | 58% | C |
| 554 | Perth Amboy NJ | 56,739 | $62K | 20.2% | 14.3% | 14% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 634 | Albany GA | 66,907 | $47K | 27.5% | 11.2% | 51% | 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 Yuba City, 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 Yuba City: questions
What is the median household income in Yuba City?
$75,477 (±$5,059) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yuba City?
14.3%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Yuba City?
27 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Yuba City work?
26% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (7%, 40 mi), Marysville (6%, 4 mi), Roseville (3%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Yuba City walkable?
Yuba City is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 12.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Yuba City without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 29% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Yuba City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yuba City
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.