Work & commute · Carpinteria

Work & commute in Carpinteria, CA

Most working residents leave Carpinteria for work: only 18% work in town. The top destinations are Santa Barbara (25%), Goleta (6%) and San Buenaventura (Ventura) (4%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

18%

935 of 5,293 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,358 Carpinteria residents head out of town to work, 935 work right here, and 5,005 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Carpinteria.

4,358live here, work elsewhere

935live and work here

5,005work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Carpinteria goes to work

Santa Barbara11.8 mi away

25%1,298

Carpinteria (in town)right here

18%935

Goleta20.3 mi away

6%336

San Buenaventura (Ventura)16.6 mi away

4%225

Los Angeles67.6 mi away

4%194

Eastern Goleta Valley16.3 mi away

3%166

Oxnard21.5 mi away

3%162

Toro Canyon4.1 mi away

3%155

Montecito7.5 mi away

3%141

Thousand Oaks38.6 mi away

2%84

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%1,597

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

How far

How far Carpinteria commutes

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

37%

34%

22%

37%Under 10 mi

34%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Carpinteria is balanced between jobs and homes

1.12jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.12 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Carpinteria are

5,940 jobs are based in Carpinteria. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Carpinteria’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Carpinteria

5,940 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month67%

Jobs Carpinteria residents hold

5,293 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+14%

Jobs based in Carpinteria, 2013 → 2023: 5,193 → 5,940. 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.