Work & commute · East Niles

Work & commute in East Niles, CA

Most working residents leave East Niles for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Bakersfield (38%), Los Angeles (3%) and Oildale (3%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

534 of 9,600 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 9,066 East Niles residents head out of town to work, 534 work right here, and 3,745 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in East Niles.

9,066live here, work elsewhere

534live and work here

3,745work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where East Niles goes to work

Bakersfield6.6 mi away

38%3,693

East Niles (in town)right here

6%534

Los Angeles97.6 mi away

3%334

Oildale7.4 mi away

3%241

Shafter17.5 mi away

2%208

Fresno109.2 mi away

1%136

Rosedale16 mi away

1%112

Delano33.6 mi away

1%102

Hillcrest2.1 mi away

1%72

Potomac Park2.4 mi away

1%70

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%4,098

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

How far

How far East Niles commutes

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

54%

13%

29%

54%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

29%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

East Niles is a commuter town

0.45jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in East Niles are

4,279 jobs are based in East Niles. Here is what they are, next to the jobs East Niles’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in East Niles

4,279 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)44%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)34%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month65%

Jobs East Niles residents hold

9,600 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month51%

+14%

Jobs based in East Niles, 2013 → 2023: 3,764 → 4,279. 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.