Work & commute · Alturas

Work & commute in Alturas, CA

56% of Alturas’s working residents work right in town. The top destinations are Cedarville (3%), Redding (2%) and Susanville (2%). Half commute less than 1 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

56%

639 of 1,132 working residents

Typical commute

1 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 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 493 Alturas residents head out of town to work, 639 work right here, and 891 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Alturas.

493live here, work elsewhere

639live and work here

891work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Alturas goes to work

Alturas (in town)right here

56%639

Cedarville19.7 mi away

3%38

Redding113.9 mi away

2%24

Susanville73 mi away

2%20

Eureka193.4 mi away

1%11

Sacramento207.6 mi away

1%10

Chico136.7 mi away

1%9

Red Bluff126.8 mi away

1%8

New Pine Creek36.8 mi away

1%7

Altamont, OR77.8 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

32%359

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

How far

How far Alturas commutes

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

65%

27%

65%Under 10 mi

6%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Alturas is balanced between jobs and homes

1.35jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.35 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Alturas are

1,530 jobs are based in Alturas. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Alturas’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Alturas

1,530 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)81%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month56%

Jobs Alturas residents hold

1,132 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month55%

+21%

Jobs based in Alturas, 2013 → 2023: 1,263 → 1,530. 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.