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Work & commute in Grizzly Flats · A commuter town

100% of Grizzly Flats’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Grizzly Flats for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Sacramento (8%), Placerville (7%) and Diamond Springs (7%). Half commute less than 44 miles.

Work in town
0%
1 of 304 working residents
Typical commute
44 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
57 min
More than CA (29 min)
Work from home
28%
More than CA (17%)
Jobs based here
13
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Grizzly Flats?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

8% of working residents work in Sacramento

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Placerville: 22 residents work here (7%)Roseville: 5 residents work here (2%)Folsom: 10 residents work here (3%)San Jose: 10 residents work here (3%)San Diego: 7 residents work here (2%)FremontSan Francisco: 6 residents work here (2%)Sacramento: 23 residents work here (8%)McSwainGrizzly FlatsPollock PinesShingle Springs: 7 residents work here (2%)Diamond Springs: 21 residents work here (7%)El Dorado Hills: 6 residents work here (2%)Sun ValleySacramentoPlacervilleDiamond SpringsFolsomSan JoseSan DiegoGrizzly Flats
1
Sacramento50.6 mi away
8%23
2
Placerville15.6 mi away
7%22
3
Diamond Springs16.8 mi away
7%21
4
Folsom32.8 mi away
3%10
5
San Jose115.9 mi away
3%10
6
San Diego444.4 mi away
2%7
7
Shingle Springs21.7 mi away
2%7
8
San Francisco149.4 mi away
2%6
9
El Dorado Hills27.8 mi away
2%6
10
Roseville43.3 mi away
2%5
Everywhere elseother towns and states
62%187
The top trips

Where Grizzly Flats clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Time on the road

About 57 minutes each way, longer than most of California

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
434 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 18.1 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Grizzly Flats57 min
California29 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
28%

of Grizzly Flats workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.

About 3 in 10
Day and night

Grizzly Flats quiets down on a workday

On a workday 303 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.

303live here, work elsewhere
1live and work here
12work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night1,400
Workday1,100
1,400live here− 300head out to work+ 12come in to work= 1,100on a workday

About 1,100 people are in Grizzly Flats on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.04jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Grizzly Flats commutes less than 44 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miSacramento: 8% · 50.6 miPlacerville: 7% · 15.6 miDiamond Springs: 7% · 16.8 miFolsom: 3% · 32.8 miSan Jose: 3% · 115.9 miSan Diego: 2% · 444.4 miShingle Springs: 2% · 21.7 miSan Francisco: 2% · 149.4 miEl Dorado Hills: 2% · 27.8 miRoseville: 2% · 43.3 miSacramento 8%Placerville 7%Diamond Springs 7%San Jose 3%Grizzly Flats
Grizzly FlatsTop destinations (size = commuters)
6%Under 10 mi18 residents
26%10–24 mi78 residents
27%25–50 mi81 residents
42%Over 50 mi127 residents

About 42% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

The jobs

What the 13 jobs in Grizzly Flats are

13 jobs are based in Grizzly Flats. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Grizzly Flats’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Grizzly FlatsJobs Grizzly Flats residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms15%21%
Trade, transport & utilities54%13%
Services: health, schools, offices31%66%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less15%9%
$1,251–$3,333 a month38%24%
Over $3,333 a month46%67%

Who does it

29 or younger0%16%
30 to 5462%57%
55 and older38%27%
−13%

Jobs based in Grizzly Flats, 2013 → 2023: 15 → 13. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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