Work & commute · Bear Valley Springs

Work & commute in Bear Valley Springs, CA

Most working residents leave Bear Valley Springs for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Bakersfield (16%), Tehachapi (14%) and Lancaster (5%). Half commute less than 32 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
7%
111 of 1,618 working residents
Typical commute
32 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
42 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
20%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,507 Bear Valley Springs residents head out of town to work, 111 work right here, and 279 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bear Valley Springs.

1,507live here, work elsewhere
111live and work here
279work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Bear Valley Springs goes to work

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1
Bakersfield24 mi away
16%255
2
Tehachapi12.9 mi away
14%221
3
Bear Valley Springs (in town)right here
7%111
4
Lancaster43.7 mi away
5%82
5
Los Angeles81.4 mi away
5%76
6
Palmdale51.7 mi away
4%58
7
Golden Hills10.1 mi away
3%47
8
Mojave29.4 mi away
2%34
9
Santa Clarita53.5 mi away
2%26
10
Fresno127.5 mi away
1%21
Everywhere elseother towns and states
42%687

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

How far

How far Bear Valley Springs commutes

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

21%Under 10 mi
14%10–24 mi
30%25–50 mi
35%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Bear Valley Springs is a commuter town

0.24jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Bear Valley Springs are

390 jobs are based in Bear Valley Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bear Valley Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Bear Valley Springs

390 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)12%
Trade, transport & utilities12%
Services (health, schools, offices…)77%
$1,250 a month or less31%
$1,251–$3,333 a month34%
Over $3,333 a month35%

Jobs Bear Valley Springs residents hold

1,618 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)17%
Trade, transport & utilities17%
Services (health, schools, offices…)66%
$1,250 a month or less11%
$1,251–$3,333 a month24%
Over $3,333 a month65%
+61%

Jobs based in Bear Valley Springs, 2013 → 2023: 242 → 390. 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.

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