Work & commute · Fair Oaks

Work & commute in Fair Oaks, CA

Most working residents leave Fair Oaks for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Sacramento (20%), Roseville (7%) and Rancho Cordova (7%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

556 of 13,427 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

24%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 12,871 Fair Oaks residents head out of town to work, 556 work right here, and 5,375 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fair Oaks.

12,871live here, work elsewhere

556live and work here

5,375work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fair Oaks goes to work

Sacramento13 mi away

20%2,683

Roseville9.1 mi away

7%995

Rancho Cordova5.1 mi away

7%982

Folsom6 mi away

6%744

Fair Oaks (in town)right here

4%556

Carmichael4.2 mi away

4%497

Arden-Arcade8 mi away

4%493

San Francisco115.8 mi away

2%325

Citrus Heights3.7 mi away

2%316

North Highlands6.7 mi away

2%230

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%5,606

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

How far

How far Fair Oaks commutes

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

43%

30%

23%

43%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fair Oaks 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 Fair Oaks are

5,931 jobs are based in Fair Oaks. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fair Oaks’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Fair Oaks

5,931 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Fair Oaks residents hold

13,427 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month71%

+14%

Jobs based in Fair Oaks, 2013 → 2023: 5,180 → 5,931. 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.