Work & commute · Desert View Highlands

Work & commute in Desert View Highlands, CA

Most working residents leave Desert View Highlands for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Los Angeles (23%), Palmdale (16%) and Lancaster (11%). Half commute less than 33 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

5 of 927 working residents

Typical commute

33 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

45 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 922 Desert View Highlands residents head out of town to work, 5 work right here, and 250 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Desert View Highlands.

922live here, work elsewhere

5live and work here

250work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Desert View Highlands goes to work

Los Angeles42.1 mi away

23%213

Palmdale2.7 mi away

16%144

Lancaster7.2 mi away

11%99

Santa Clarita23.1 mi away

6%53

Burbank29.4 mi away

2%18

Irvine66.7 mi away

1%13

San Diego135.3 mi away

1%11

Glendale28.7 mi away

1%10

Long Beach55.9 mi away

1%8

Quartz Hill5.5 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%350

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

How far

How far Desert View Highlands commutes

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

29%

45%

22%

29%Under 10 mi

4%10–24 mi

45%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Desert View Highlands is a commuter town

0.28jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Desert View Highlands are

255 jobs are based in Desert View Highlands. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Desert View Highlands’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Desert View Highlands

255 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities1%

Services (health, schools, offices…)99%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Desert View Highlands residents hold

927 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+40%

Jobs based in Desert View Highlands, 2013 → 2023: 182 → 255. 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.