Work & commute · Guerneville

Work & commute in Guerneville, CA

Most working residents leave Guerneville for work: only 13% work in town. The top destinations are Santa Rosa (13%), San Francisco (6%) and Petaluma (3%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13%

199 of 1,531 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

34 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

27%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,332 Guerneville residents head out of town to work, 199 work right here, and 918 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Guerneville.

1,332live here, work elsewhere

199live and work here

918work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Guerneville goes to work

Santa Rosa16.1 mi away

13%200

Guerneville (in town)right here

13%199

San Francisco54.6 mi away

6%89

Petaluma27.3 mi away

3%43

Rohnert Park19.5 mi away

3%41

Healdsburg9.9 mi away

3%39

Windsor9.9 mi away

2%35

Novato38.3 mi away

2%25

Oakland66.3 mi away

1%22

Vallejo48.6 mi away

1%21

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%817

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

How far

How far Guerneville commutes

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

22%

31%

16%

31%

22%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

31%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Guerneville is a commuter town

0.73jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Guerneville are

1,117 jobs are based in Guerneville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Guerneville’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Guerneville

1,117 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Guerneville residents hold

1,531 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month61%

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Jobs based in Guerneville, 2013 → 2023: 1,115 → 1,117. 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.