Alturas has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Employers in Alturas report 420 jobs; 1,780 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Alturas is better than 37% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (C−). Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers, against 16% across Florida.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Alturas apart
Alturas is a place people come home to
There are 420 jobs based in Alturas, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Alturas has about 3,200 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
46% of the jobs in Alturas are in trade, transport and utilities, against 23% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Few Alturas workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
What’s behind Alturas’ Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Alturas’ grade up (3.7%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.5%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Alturas could be anywhere from D to B+.
In and out of Alturas on a workday
On a workday 1,755 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 395 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,200 people are in Alturas on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
In Alturas, 33% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Alturas, 2013 → 2023: 407 → 420. 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 Alturas’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Alturas, about 30 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Alturas workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,936 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
12% of working residents work in Bartow
Where Alturas clocks in
12% of workers
11% of workers
7% 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.
The commute from Alturas, by distance
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.
Most of Alturas commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,023 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). 1.5% of Alturas households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Alturas’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 3,200 to 6,200, Alturas ranks 2,595th of 3,938 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 83 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,593 | Union Township OH | 4,358 | $71K | 10.6% | 4.8% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,594 | Shelley ID | 5,303 | $78K | 10.8% | 7.0% | 12% | C+ |
| 2,595 | Alturas FL | 4,581 | $70K | 15.5% | 3.7% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,596 | Howe TX | 3,686 | $51K | 24.3% | 2.9% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,597 | Nottawa Township MI | 3,808 | $62K | 12.5% | 3.1% | 8% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,938 | 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 Alturas, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Work in the towns next to Alturas
The biggest share goes to Winter Haven (7%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Alturas workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alturas | – | C+ | C− | 30 min | $70,231 |
| Winter Haven | 7% | C | B | 28 min | $59,648 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Alturas’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 Alturas: questions
What is the median household income in Alturas?
$70,231 (±$16,926) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Alturas?
15.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Alturas?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Alturas work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bartow (12%, 9 mi), Lakeland (11%, 22 mi), Winter Haven (7%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Alturas walkable?
Alturas is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Alturas without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Alturas, from the people who make the trip.
More of Alturas
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.