Work & commute · Fremont

Work & commute in Fremont, CA

Most working residents leave Fremont for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are San Jose (12%), San Francisco (8%) and Santa Clara (6%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

18,725 of 110,068 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

32%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 91,343 Fremont residents head out of town to work, 18,725 work right here, and 102,356 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fremont.

91,343live here, work elsewhere

18,725live and work here

102,356work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fremont goes to work

Fremont (in town)right here

17%18,725

San Jose15.4 mi away

12%12,873

San Francisco61.8 mi away

8%8,382

Santa Clara9.1 mi away

6%6,074

Sunnyvale8.9 mi away

5%5,045

Palo Alto13 mi away

4%4,759

Mountain View10 mi away

3%3,785

Menlo Park11.4 mi away

3%3,315

Newark5 mi away

3%2,958

Hayward12.8 mi away

2%2,748

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%41,404

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

How far

How far Fremont commutes

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

34%

45%

12%

10%

34%Under 10 mi

45%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

10%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fremont is balanced between jobs and homes

1.10jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.10 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Fremont are

121,081 jobs are based in Fremont. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fremont’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Fremont

121,081 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)46%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)40%

$1,250 a month or less7%

$1,251–$3,333 a month15%

Over $3,333 a month79%

Jobs Fremont residents hold

110,068 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less7%

$1,251–$3,333 a month12%

Over $3,333 a month81%

+42%

Jobs based in Fremont, 2013 → 2023: 85,016 → 121,081. 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.