Work & commute · Foothill Farms

Work & commute in Foothill Farms, CA

Most working residents leave Foothill Farms for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Sacramento (21%), Roseville (9%) and Rancho Cordova (4%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

410 of 14,228 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 13,818 Foothill Farms residents head out of town to work, 410 work right here, and 4,147 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Foothill Farms.

13,818live here, work elsewhere

410live and work here

4,147work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Foothill Farms goes to work

Sacramento10.5 mi away

21%2,927

Roseville6 mi away

9%1,270

Rancho Cordova9.7 mi away

4%630

Arden-Arcade6.3 mi away

4%594

North Highlands1.7 mi away

3%468

Foothill Farms (in town)right here

3%410

Citrus Heights3.3 mi away

3%398

Carmichael4 mi away

3%387

Folsom11.2 mi away

3%384

West Sacramento14.2 mi away

2%352

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%6,408

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

How far

How far Foothill Farms commutes

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

49%

26%

21%

49%Under 10 mi

26%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Foothill Farms is a commuter town

0.32jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Foothill Farms are

4,557 jobs are based in Foothill Farms. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Foothill Farms’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Foothill Farms

4,557 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)35%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Foothill Farms residents hold

14,228 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+59%

Jobs based in Foothill Farms, 2013 → 2023: 2,875 → 4,557. 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.