Work & commute · Lagunitas-Forest Knolls

Work & commute in Lagunitas-Forest Knolls, CA

Most working residents leave Lagunitas-Forest Knolls for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are San Francisco (15%), San Rafael (10%) and Oakland (4%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11 of 516 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

29%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 505 Lagunitas-Forest Knolls residents head out of town to work, 11 work right here, and 115 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lagunitas-Forest Knolls.

505live here, work elsewhere

11live and work here

115work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lagunitas-Forest Knolls goes to work

San Francisco27.4 mi away

15%75

San Rafael10.4 mi away

10%53

Oakland30.6 mi away

4%20

Novato9.1 mi away

3%15

Fairfax5.6 mi away

3%14

San Anselmo7.1 mi away

3%13

Lagunitas-Forest Knolls (in town)right here

2%11

Santa Rosa29.6 mi away

2%9

San Jose69.2 mi away

2%9

Woodacre3 mi away

2%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%288

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

How far

How far Lagunitas-Forest Knolls commutes

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

25%

33%

23%

19%

25%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

23%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lagunitas-Forest Knolls is a commuter town

0.24jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lagunitas-Forest Knolls are

126 jobs are based in Lagunitas-Forest Knolls. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lagunitas-Forest Knolls’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lagunitas-Forest Knolls

126 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities5%

Services (health, schools, offices…)84%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Lagunitas-Forest Knolls residents hold

516 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month69%

−7%

Jobs based in Lagunitas-Forest Knolls, 2013 → 2023: 135 → 126. 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.