Work & commute · Garden Grove

Work & commute in Garden Grove, CA

Most working residents leave Garden Grove for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Santa Ana (9%), Irvine (8%) and Anaheim (8%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

7,590 of 75,813 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 68,223 Garden Grove residents head out of town to work, 7,590 work right here, and 41,075 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Garden Grove.

68,223live here, work elsewhere

7,590live and work here

41,075work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Garden Grove goes to work

Garden Grove (in town)right here

10%7,590

Santa Ana5.3 mi away

9%6,770

Irvine12.9 mi away

8%6,146

Anaheim12.7 mi away

8%6,070

Los Angeles30.7 mi away

6%4,181

Orange5.7 mi away

4%3,288

Huntington Beach6.1 mi away

4%2,845

Costa Mesa8.3 mi away

3%2,364

Westminster2.7 mi away

3%2,033

Newport Beach11.8 mi away

3%1,917

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%32,609

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

How far

How far Garden Grove commutes

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

57%

23%

11%

57%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Garden Grove is a commuter town

0.64jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Garden Grove are

48,665 jobs are based in Garden Grove. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Garden Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Garden Grove

48,665 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Garden Grove residents hold

75,813 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+13%

Jobs based in Garden Grove, 2013 → 2023: 43,228 → 48,665. 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.