Work & commute · Calabasas

Work & commute in Calabasas, CA

Most working residents leave Calabasas for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Los Angeles (42%), Burbank (5%) and Thousand Oaks (5%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

674 of 9,667 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

34 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

24%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 8,993 Calabasas residents head out of town to work, 674 work right here, and 14,096 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Calabasas.

8,993live here, work elsewhere

674live and work here

14,096work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Calabasas goes to work

Los Angeles16.5 mi away

42%4,070

Calabasas (in town)right here

7%674

Burbank20 mi away

5%515

Thousand Oaks12.6 mi away

5%436

Santa Monica12.6 mi away

3%267

San Francisco348.4 mi away

2%178

Beverly Hills15.6 mi away

2%167

Agoura Hills5.7 mi away

2%152

Westlake Village8.8 mi away

2%147

Culver City17.7 mi away

1%132

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%2,929

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

How far

How far Calabasas commutes

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

27%

49%

10%

13%

27%Under 10 mi

49%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

13%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Calabasas is a job hub

1.53jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Calabasas are

14,770 jobs are based in Calabasas. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Calabasas’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Calabasas

14,770 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month69%

Jobs Calabasas residents hold

9,667 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month68%

+3%

Jobs based in Calabasas, 2013 → 2023: 14,302 → 14,770. 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.