Work & commute · Los Olivos

Work & commute in Los Olivos, CA

Most working residents leave Los Olivos for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Santa Barbara (8%), Solvang (7%) and Los Angeles (5%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

43 of 353 working residents

Typical commute

25 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

38%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 310 Los Olivos residents head out of town to work, 43 work right here, and 574 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Los Olivos.

310live here, work elsewhere

43live and work here

574work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Los Olivos goes to work

Los Olivos (in town)right here

12%43

Santa Barbara29.1 mi away

8%29

Solvang4.8 mi away

7%24

Los Angeles107 mi away

5%19

Santa Maria26.4 mi away

5%18

Santa Ynez3.3 mi away

5%17

Goleta21.5 mi away

3%12

Buellton5.4 mi away

3%11

Ballard1.4 mi away

3%11

Bakersfield77.6 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%164

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

How far

How far Los Olivos commutes

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

39%

11%

15%

35%

39%Under 10 mi

11%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

35%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Los Olivos is a job hub

1.75jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Los Olivos are

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

Jobs based in Los Olivos

617 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)33%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month65%

Jobs Los Olivos residents hold

353 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month66%

−1%

Jobs based in Los Olivos, 2013 → 2023: 622 → 617. 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.