Work & commute · El Sobrante

Work & commute in El Sobrante, CA

Most working residents leave El Sobrante for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Riverside (18%), Corona (7%) and Los Angeles (5%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

139 of 6,350 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

37 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 6,211 El Sobrante residents head out of town to work, 139 work right here, and 815 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in El Sobrante.

6,211live here, work elsewhere

139live and work here

815work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where El Sobrante goes to work

Riverside6 mi away

18%1,119

Corona6 mi away

7%467

Los Angeles55.3 mi away

5%306

Irvine22.2 mi away

4%264

San Bernardino20.9 mi away

3%221

Ontario14 mi away

3%197

Anaheim17 mi away

3%166

Moreno Valley15.1 mi away

2%151

El Sobrante (in town)right here

2%139

Rancho Cucamonga18.8 mi away

2%134

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%3,186

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

How far

How far El Sobrante commutes

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

30%

35%

21%

14%

30%Under 10 mi

35%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

El Sobrante is a commuter town

0.15jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in El Sobrante are

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

Jobs based in El Sobrante

954 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)31%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs El Sobrante residents hold

6,350 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month68%

+150%

Jobs based in El Sobrante, 2013 → 2023: 382 → 954. 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.