Work & commute · Los Gatos

Work & commute in Los Gatos, CA

Most working residents leave Los Gatos for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are San Jose (23%), Santa Clara (7%) and San Francisco (6%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1,155 of 14,708 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

33%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 13,553 Los Gatos residents head out of town to work, 1,155 work right here, and 17,791 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Los Gatos.

13,553live here, work elsewhere

1,155live and work here

17,791work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Los Gatos goes to work

San Jose9.1 mi away

23%3,430

Los Gatos (in town)right here

8%1,155

Santa Clara9.5 mi away

7%1,023

San Francisco68.4 mi away

6%851

Cupertino8.1 mi away

6%845

Sunnyvale11.7 mi away

6%832

Mountain View13.7 mi away

5%672

Palo Alto15.6 mi away

4%628

Campbell3.7 mi away

3%467

Fremont18.5 mi away

2%318

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%4,487

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

How far

How far Los Gatos commutes

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

42%

34%

14%

11%

42%Under 10 mi

34%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Los Gatos is balanced between jobs and homes

1.29jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.29 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Los Gatos are

18,946 jobs are based in Los Gatos. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Los Gatos’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Los Gatos

18,946 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month15%

Over $3,333 a month75%

Jobs Los Gatos residents hold

14,708 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month11%

Over $3,333 a month81%

+31%

Jobs based in Los Gatos, 2013 → 2023: 14,464 → 18,946. 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.