Work & commute · Los Molinos

Work & commute in Los Molinos, CA

Most working residents leave Los Molinos for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Chico (10%), Red Bluff (9%) and Redding (5%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

43 of 672 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 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 629 Los Molinos residents head out of town to work, 43 work right here, and 426 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Los Molinos.

629live here, work elsewhere

43live and work here

426work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Los Molinos goes to work

Chico23.7 mi away

10%70

Red Bluff12.6 mi away

9%63

Los Molinos (in town)right here

6%43

Redding40.1 mi away

5%33

Corning8.2 mi away

5%32

Sacramento106.3 mi away

3%18

Yuba City66.6 mi away

3%17

Vina6.9 mi away

3%17

Oroville46.6 mi away

1%8

Anderson31 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

54%366

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

How far

How far Los Molinos commutes

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

27%

25%

14%

34%

27%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

34%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Los Molinos is a commuter town

0.70jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Los Molinos are

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

Jobs based in Los Molinos

469 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Los Molinos residents hold

672 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+42%

Jobs based in Los Molinos, 2013 → 2023: 330 → 469. 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.