Work & commute · Los Alamitos

Work & commute in Los Alamitos, CA

Most working residents leave Los Alamitos for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Long Beach (11%), Los Angeles (10%) and Anaheim (5%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

356 of 5,620 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,264 Los Alamitos residents head out of town to work, 356 work right here, and 12,550 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Los Alamitos.

5,264live here, work elsewhere

356live and work here

12,550work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Los Alamitos goes to work

Long Beach6.2 mi away

11%591

Los Angeles25.3 mi away

10%572

Los Alamitos (in town)right here

6%356

Anaheim17.8 mi away

5%276

Irvine18.6 mi away

4%247

Cypress2 mi away

4%205

Huntington Beach7.6 mi away

3%181

Santa Ana11.1 mi away

3%154

Orange11.5 mi away

2%128

Garden Grove5.9 mi away

2%115

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%2,795

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

How far

How far Los Alamitos commutes

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

44%

40%

44%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Los Alamitos is a job hub

2.30jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.3 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Los Alamitos are

12,906 jobs are based in Los Alamitos. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Los Alamitos’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Los Alamitos

12,906 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month63%

Jobs Los Alamitos residents hold

5,620 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+7%

Jobs based in Los Alamitos, 2013 → 2023: 12,040 → 12,906. 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.