Work & commute · Emerald Lake Hills

Work & commute in Emerald Lake Hills, CA

Most working residents leave Emerald Lake Hills for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Redwood City (9%), San Francisco (9%) and Palo Alto (8%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

28 of 1,909 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

41%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,881 Emerald Lake Hills residents head out of town to work, 28 work right here, and 357 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Emerald Lake Hills.

1,881live here, work elsewhere

28live and work here

357work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Emerald Lake Hills goes to work

Redwood City4.4 mi away

9%180

San Francisco45.7 mi away

9%170

Palo Alto8.2 mi away

8%148

Mountain View11.2 mi away

6%108

San Jose27.4 mi away

6%107

Sunnyvale14.2 mi away

5%101

Menlo Park6.5 mi away

5%98

San Mateo7 mi away

5%97

Stanford6 mi away

4%75

San Carlos2.3 mi away

3%59

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%766

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

How far

How far Emerald Lake Hills commutes

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

45%

42%

45%Under 10 mi

42%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Emerald Lake Hills is a commuter town

0.20jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Emerald Lake Hills are

385 jobs are based in Emerald Lake Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Emerald Lake Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Emerald Lake Hills

385 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)39%

Trade, transport & utilities2%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month70%

Jobs Emerald Lake Hills residents hold

1,909 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less7%

$1,251–$3,333 a month9%

Over $3,333 a month83%

+75%

Jobs based in Emerald Lake Hills, 2013 → 2023: 220 → 385. 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.