Photo: Jessie Terwilliger from Beaumont, CA, USA · CC BY 2.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Yucaipa works elsewhere
Yucaipa has 8,164 jobs; 22,364 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Yucaipa is better than 56% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (B+). About one in ten stay in Yucaipa for work; outside it, San Bernardino is the main destination (11%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Yucaipa stands out on work
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Yucaipa
Job access by car holds Yucaipa’s grade up (ahead of 75% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (7.0%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Yucaipa could be anywhere from B− to B+.
What Yucaipa’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yucaipa, 2013 → 2023: 5,977 → 8,164. 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 Yucaipa’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Yucaipa on a workday afternoon
On a workday 19,978 residents head out to work, 2,386 work right here, and 5,778 people come in from elsewhere.
About 41,000 people are in Yucaipa on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
Commuting out of Yucaipa: the destinations
Where Yucaipa clocks in
11% of workers
10% 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.
About 33 minutes each way for Yucaipa’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Yucaipa workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 20,906 commuters (the 11% 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 far Yucaipa goes to work
About 23% 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.
Driving is how Yucaipa gets around
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.5% 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 23,378 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 72% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 4% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 69% 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). 6.4% of Yucaipa households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Yucaipa’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Yucaipa is 530th of 834 U.S. towns of 38,000 to 74,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Fulshear TX | 64,630 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Liberty Township OH | 40,625 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.5% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Cupertino CA | 58,333 | $235K | 4.1% | 4.0% | 11% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | South San Francisco CA | 64,941 | $137K | 6.7% | 2.8% | 12% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Dublin CA | 71,602 | $214K | 4.5% | 3.8% | 6% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 528 | Miami Township OH | 52,991 | $80K | 11.5% | 5.2% | 15% | B |
| 529 | Kannapolis NC | 61,708 | $74K | 12.6% | 4.1% | 9% | B |
| 530 | Yucaipa CA | 54,953 | $91K | 9.1% | 7.0% | 11% | B |
| 531 | Antelope CA | 48,301 | $99K | 10.6% | 8.5% | 4% | B |
| 532 | Lacey WA | 58,833 | $91K | 11.6% | 4.9% | 17% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 834 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Yucaipa, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Next door is work for 10% of Yucaipa
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Yucaipa workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yucaipa | – | B | B+ | 33 min | $90,794 |
| Redlands | 10% | B+ | A− | 25 min | $105,041 |
| Oak Glen | under 3% | — | — | — | — |
| Calimesa | under 3% | A | B+ | 36 min | $87,181 |
| Mentone | under 3% | B | B+ | 27 min | $74,708 |
Same-state neighbors only. Oak Glen: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Redlands. Darker towns draw more of Yucaipa’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 Yucaipa: questions
What is the median household income in Yucaipa?
$90,794 (±$8,342) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yucaipa?
9.1%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Yucaipa?
33 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Yucaipa work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Bernardino (11%, 16 mi), Redlands (10%, 7 mi), Riverside (5%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Yucaipa walkable?
Yucaipa is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 11.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Yucaipa without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 4% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Yucaipa, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yucaipa
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.