Work & commute · East Foothills

Work & commute in East Foothills, CA

Most working residents leave East Foothills for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are San Jose (37%), Santa Clara (7%) and Fremont (5%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

54 of 3,117 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

30%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,063 East Foothills residents head out of town to work, 54 work right here, and 354 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in East Foothills.

3,063live here, work elsewhere

54live and work here

354work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where East Foothills goes to work

San Jose6 mi away

37%1,168

Santa Clara8.6 mi away

7%211

Fremont10.4 mi away

5%146

Sunnyvale11.7 mi away

4%137

Milpitas5.5 mi away

4%135

San Francisco70.9 mi away

3%97

Mountain View14.6 mi away

3%85

Palo Alto18.1 mi away

3%80

East Foothills (in town)right here

2%54

Cupertino13.4 mi away

1%46

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%958

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

How far

How far East Foothills commutes

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

51%

25%

12%

51%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

East Foothills is a commuter town

0.13jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in East Foothills are

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

Jobs based in East Foothills

408 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities2%

Services (health, schools, offices…)81%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs East Foothills residents hold

3,117 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month75%

+69%

Jobs based in East Foothills, 2013 → 2023: 242 → 408. 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.