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Work & commute · Glen Ellen

Work & commute in Glen Ellen, CA

Most working residents leave Glen Ellen for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Santa Rosa (18%), San Francisco (9%) and Petaluma (4%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
4%
10 of 226 working residents
Typical commute
16 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
14 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 216 Glen Ellen residents head out of town to work, 10 work right here, and 227 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Glen Ellen.

216live here, work elsewhere
10live and work here
227work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Glen Ellen goes to work

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1
Santa Rosa10.8 mi away
18%40
2
San Francisco50.9 mi away
9%20
3
Glen Ellen (in town)right here
4%10
4
Petaluma9.1 mi away
4%9
5
Kenwood4.2 mi away
4%8
6
Sonoma6.4 mi away
3%7
7
Rohnert Park8.6 mi away
3%6
8
San Jose83.3 mi away
3%6
9
Oakland44 mi away
3%6
10
Richmond29.6 mi away
2%4
Everywhere elseother towns and states
49%110

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

How far

How far Glen Ellen commutes

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

28%Under 10 mi
28%10–24 mi
22%25–50 mi
22%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Glen Ellen is balanced between jobs and homes

1.05jobs per working resident
Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.05 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Glen Ellen are

237 jobs are based in Glen Ellen. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Glen Ellen’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Glen Ellen

237 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)35%
Trade, transport & utilities14%
Services (health, schools, offices…)51%
$1,250 a month or less15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month33%
Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Glen Ellen residents hold

226 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)20%
Trade, transport & utilities19%
Services (health, schools, offices…)60%
$1,250 a month or less13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month19%
Over $3,333 a month69%
−53%

Jobs based in Glen Ellen, 2013 → 2023: 506 → 237. 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.

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