Work & commute · El Granada

Work & commute in El Granada, CA

Most working residents leave El Granada for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are San Francisco (18%), Half Moon Bay (8%) and San Mateo (4%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

102 of 1,940 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

28%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,838 El Granada residents head out of town to work, 102 work right here, and 742 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in El Granada.

1,838live here, work elsewhere

102live and work here

742work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where El Granada goes to work

San Francisco34.4 mi away

18%347

Half Moon Bay3.5 mi away

8%152

El Granada (in town)right here

5%102

San Mateo9 mi away

4%83

Palo Alto19.4 mi away

4%81

Redwood City13.8 mi away

4%76

San Jose38.7 mi away

4%74

South San Francisco10.9 mi away

3%66

Oakland22 mi away

2%46

Menlo Park17.5 mi away

2%45

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%868

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

How far

How far El Granada commutes

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

24%

48%

16%

12%

24%Under 10 mi

48%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

El Granada is a commuter town

0.44jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in El Granada are

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

Jobs based in El Granada

844 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs El Granada residents hold

1,940 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month14%

Over $3,333 a month76%

+43%

Jobs based in El Granada, 2013 → 2023: 589 → 844. 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.