Work & commute · Lake Shastina

Work & commute in Lake Shastina, CA

Most working residents leave Lake Shastina for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Weed (20%), Yreka (18%) and Mount Shasta (8%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

25 of 815 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

18%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 790 Lake Shastina residents head out of town to work, 25 work right here, and 74 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lake Shastina.

790live here, work elsewhere

25live and work here

74work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lake Shastina goes to work

Weed7.5 mi away

20%160

Yreka19.2 mi away

18%144

Mount Shasta14.2 mi away

8%63

Redding65.7 mi away

6%50

Lake Shastina (in town)right here

3%25

Sacramento209.6 mi away

1%12

McCloud22.3 mi away

1%9

Red Bluff93.4 mi away

1%8

Chico125.2 mi away

1%8

San Francisco264.4 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%328

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

How far

How far Lake Shastina commutes

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

29%

33%

35%

29%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

35%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lake Shastina is a commuter town

0.12jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lake Shastina are

99 jobs are based in Lake Shastina. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lake Shastina’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lake Shastina

99 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Lake Shastina residents hold

815 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+71%

Jobs based in Lake Shastina, 2013 → 2023: 58 → 99. 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.