Work & commute · La Honda

Work & commute in La Honda, CA

Most working residents leave La Honda for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are San Francisco (14%), San Jose (6%) and Redwood City (6%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

3 of 317 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

40 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

31%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 314 La Honda residents head out of town to work, 3 work right here, and 164 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in La Honda.

314live here, work elsewhere

3live and work here

164work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where La Honda goes to work

San Francisco51 mi away

14%43

San Jose24.4 mi away

6%20

Redwood City13.9 mi away

6%19

Mountain View11.4 mi away

4%13

Oakland31.3 mi away

4%13

Palo Alto8.4 mi away

3%11

Half Moon Bay14.4 mi away

3%10

Menlo Park12.7 mi away

3%8

San Carlos12.5 mi away

2%7

Los Altos9.6 mi away

2%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%166

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

How far

How far La Honda commutes

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

17%

48%

21%

14%

17%Under 10 mi

48%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

La Honda is a commuter town

0.53jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in La Honda are

167 jobs are based in La Honda. Here is what they are, next to the jobs La Honda’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in La Honda

167 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities1%

Services (health, schools, offices…)89%

$1,250 a month or less31%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs La Honda residents hold

317 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month69%

−33%

Jobs based in La Honda, 2013 → 2023: 251 → 167. 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.