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Work & commute in Biggs, CA

Most working residents leave Biggs for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Chico (12%), Oroville (9%) and Gridley (7%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
3%
14 of 540 working residents
Typical commute
22 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
24 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
4%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 526 Biggs residents head out of town to work, 14 work right here, and 201 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Biggs.

526live here, work elsewhere
14live and work here
201work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Biggs goes to work

BiggsGridleyLive OakOrovilleYuba CityChicoSan FranciscoSacramentoReddingRichvaleThermalitoOroville EastPalermoChicoOrovilleGridleyYuba CityRichvaleLive OakSacramentoReddingSan FranciscoBiggs
1
Chico24.7 mi away
12%66
2
Oroville9.9 mi away
9%47
3
Gridley3.4 mi away
7%40
4
Yuba City19.8 mi away
7%36
5
Richvale6.1 mi away
4%19
6
Biggs (in town)right here
3%14
7
Live Oak9.5 mi away
2%10
8
Sacramento59.7 mi away
2%10
9
Redding87.3 mi away
2%10
10
San Francisco136.5 mi away
2%9
Everywhere elseother towns and states
52%279

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

How far

How far Biggs commutes

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

27%Under 10 mi
31%10–24 mi
8%25–50 mi
33%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Biggs is a commuter town

0.40jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Biggs are

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

Jobs based in Biggs

215 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)48%
Trade, transport & utilities5%
Services (health, schools, offices…)47%
$1,250 a month or less9%
$1,251–$3,333 a month35%
Over $3,333 a month56%

Jobs Biggs residents hold

540 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)24%
Trade, transport & utilities20%
Services (health, schools, offices…)56%
$1,250 a month or less14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month26%
Over $3,333 a month60%
−22%

Jobs based in Biggs, 2013 → 2023: 275 → 215. 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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