Work & commute · Belmont

Work & commute in Belmont, CA

Most working residents leave Belmont for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are San Francisco (12%), San Mateo (8%) and Redwood City (7%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

495 of 12,060 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

34%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 11,565 Belmont residents head out of town to work, 495 work right here, and 5,703 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Belmont.

11,565live here, work elsewhere

495live and work here

5,703work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Belmont goes to work

San Francisco43 mi away

12%1,507

San Mateo3.3 mi away

8%976

Redwood City4.4 mi away

7%856

Palo Alto11.6 mi away

6%668

San Jose30.4 mi away

5%608

Menlo Park8.4 mi away

5%586

Mountain View14.2 mi away

5%580

South San Francisco10.7 mi away

5%557

Belmont (in town)right here

4%495

San Carlos1.8 mi away

3%393

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%4,834

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

How far

How far Belmont commutes

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

40%

45%

40%Under 10 mi

45%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Belmont is a commuter town

0.51jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Belmont are

6,198 jobs are based in Belmont. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Belmont’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Belmont

6,198 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month73%

Jobs Belmont residents hold

12,060 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less7%

$1,251–$3,333 a month10%

Over $3,333 a month83%

+15%

Jobs based in Belmont, 2013 → 2023: 5,412 → 6,198. 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.