Work & commute · Cerritos

Work & commute in Cerritos, CA

Most working residents leave Cerritos for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Los Angeles (15%), Long Beach (7%) and Anaheim (4%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1,614 of 20,110 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 18,496 Cerritos residents head out of town to work, 1,614 work right here, and 36,275 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cerritos.

18,496live here, work elsewhere

1,614live and work here

36,275work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cerritos goes to work

Los Angeles22.2 mi away

15%3,079

Cerritos (in town)right here

8%1,614

Long Beach8.3 mi away

7%1,313

Anaheim17.9 mi away

4%829

Irvine21.6 mi away

3%583

Buena Park3.6 mi away

2%425

Torrance16.7 mi away

2%423

Norwalk2.9 mi away

2%382

Santa Fe Springs4.6 mi away

2%331

Fullerton8.2 mi away

2%331

Everywhere elseother towns and states

54%10,800

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

How far

How far Cerritos commutes

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

40%

43%

40%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cerritos is a job hub

1.88jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Cerritos are

37,889 jobs are based in Cerritos. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cerritos’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cerritos

37,889 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities37%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Cerritos residents hold

20,110 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month68%

+10%

Jobs based in Cerritos, 2013 → 2023: 34,382 → 37,889. 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.