Work & commute · Caruthers

Work & commute in Caruthers, CA

Most working residents leave Caruthers for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Fresno (27%), Clovis (3%) and Visalia (2%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

70 of 850 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 780 Caruthers residents head out of town to work, 70 work right here, and 450 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Caruthers.

780live here, work elsewhere

70live and work here

450work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Caruthers goes to work

Fresno17 mi away

27%231

Caruthers (in town)right here

8%70

Clovis21.9 mi away

3%26

Visalia32.3 mi away

2%18

Hanford18.1 mi away

2%15

Los Angeles192 mi away

1%10

Kingsburg15.5 mi away

1%9

Madera32.3 mi away

1%8

Riverdale7.7 mi away

1%8

Selma13 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%448

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Caruthers commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

25%

45%

21%

25%Under 10 mi

45%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Caruthers is a commuter town

0.61jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.61 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Caruthers are

520 jobs are based in Caruthers. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Caruthers’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Caruthers

520 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Caruthers residents hold

850 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)33%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month56%

−9%

Jobs based in Caruthers, 2013 → 2023: 570 → 520. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.