Work & commute · Corralitos

Work & commute in Corralitos, CA

Most working residents leave Corralitos for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Watsonville (12%), Santa Cruz (9%) and San Jose (6%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

20 of 946 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 926 Corralitos residents head out of town to work, 20 work right here, and 467 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Corralitos.

926live here, work elsewhere

20live and work here

467work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Corralitos goes to work

Watsonville5.3 mi away

12%115

Santa Cruz14.3 mi away

9%87

San Jose20.5 mi away

6%57

Live Oak11.2 mi away

3%33

Aptos6.4 mi away

3%30

San Francisco85.2 mi away

3%28

Capitola9.8 mi away

2%23

Salinas22.9 mi away

2%23

Scotts Valley13.4 mi away

2%21

Corralitos (in town)right here

2%20

Everywhere elseother towns and states

54%509

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

How far

How far Corralitos commutes

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

38%

30%

16%

17%

38%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Corralitos is a commuter town

0.51jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Corralitos are

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

Jobs based in Corralitos

487 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)35%

Trade, transport & utilities34%

Services (health, schools, offices…)31%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month62%

Jobs Corralitos residents hold

946 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+1%

Jobs based in Corralitos, 2013 → 2023: 484 → 487. 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.