Work & commute · Los Altos Hills

Work & commute in Los Altos Hills, CA

Most working residents leave Los Altos Hills for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are San Jose (10%), Palo Alto (9%) and San Francisco (8%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

89 of 3,070 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

44%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,981 Los Altos Hills residents head out of town to work, 89 work right here, and 1,511 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Los Altos Hills.

2,981live here, work elsewhere

89live and work here

1,511work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Los Altos Hills goes to work

San Jose18.5 mi away

10%313

Palo Alto2.1 mi away

9%291

San Francisco54.9 mi away

8%257

Mountain View4 mi away

8%245

Sunnyvale6.3 mi away

6%199

Santa Clara9.4 mi away

6%191

Menlo Park7.8 mi away

5%140

Cupertino6.1 mi away

4%117

Los Altos2.3 mi away

3%91

Los Altos Hills (in town)right here

3%89

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%1,137

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

How far

How far Los Altos Hills commutes

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

49%

26%

14%

10%

49%Under 10 mi

26%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

10%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Los Altos Hills is a commuter town

0.52jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Los Altos Hills are

1,600 jobs are based in Los Altos Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Los Altos Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Los Altos Hills

1,600 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities2%

Services (health, schools, offices…)95%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month13%

Over $3,333 a month78%

Jobs Los Altos Hills residents hold

3,070 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less6%

$1,251–$3,333 a month10%

Over $3,333 a month83%

−21%

Jobs based in Los Altos Hills, 2013 → 2023: 2,031 → 1,600. 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.