Work & commute · Lawndale

Work & commute in Lawndale, CA

Most working residents leave Lawndale for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Los Angeles (27%), Torrance (7%) and El Segundo (4%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

588 of 13,590 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 13,002 Lawndale residents head out of town to work, 588 work right here, and 4,959 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lawndale.

13,002live here, work elsewhere

588live and work here

4,959work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lawndale goes to work

Los Angeles9.6 mi away

27%3,645

Torrance4 mi away

7%1,004

Lawndale (in town)right here

4%588

El Segundo4.4 mi away

4%583

Redondo Beach3.8 mi away

4%487

Hawthorne1.8 mi away

4%482

Manhattan Beach3.6 mi away

3%375

Long Beach13 mi away

3%373

Carson6.8 mi away

2%310

Inglewood4.7 mi away

2%288

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%5,455

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

How far

How far Lawndale commutes

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

51%

31%

51%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lawndale is a commuter town

0.41jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lawndale are

5,547 jobs are based in Lawndale. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lawndale’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lawndale

5,547 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Lawndale residents hold

13,590 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+12%

Jobs based in Lawndale, 2013 → 2023: 4,935 → 5,547. 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.