Work & commute · Buena Park

Work & commute in Buena Park, CA

Most working residents leave Buena Park for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Los Angeles (10%), Anaheim (9%) and Irvine (5%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2,665 of 37,991 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 35,326 Buena Park residents head out of town to work, 2,665 work right here, and 30,814 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Buena Park.

35,326live here, work elsewhere

2,665live and work here

30,814work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Buena Park goes to work

Los Angeles25.7 mi away

10%3,700

Anaheim14.3 mi away

9%3,489

Buena Park (in town)right here

7%2,665

Irvine18.4 mi away

5%1,766

Santa Ana11 mi away

4%1,557

Fullerton5 mi away

4%1,353

Long Beach10.6 mi away

3%1,323

Orange9.7 mi away

3%1,178

Garden Grove6.1 mi away

2%845

Huntington Beach11 mi away

2%778

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%19,337

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

How far

How far Buena Park commutes

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

44%

39%

44%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Buena Park is balanced between jobs and homes

0.88jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.88 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Buena Park are

33,479 jobs are based in Buena Park. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Buena Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Buena Park

33,479 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Buena Park residents hold

37,991 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+9%

Jobs based in Buena Park, 2013 → 2023: 30,606 → 33,479. 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.