Work & commute · Los Ranchos

Work & commute in Los Ranchos, CA

Most working residents leave Los Ranchos for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are San Luis Obispo (32%), Los Angeles (4%) and Avila Beach (3%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

5 of 436 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

23%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 431 Los Ranchos residents head out of town to work, 5 work right here, and 504 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Los Ranchos.

431live here, work elsewhere

5live and work here

504work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Los Ranchos goes to work

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

How far

How far Los Ranchos commutes

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

51%

10%

34%

51%Under 10 mi

10%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

34%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Los Ranchos is balanced between jobs and homes

1.17jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.17 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Los Ranchos are

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

Jobs based in Los Ranchos

509 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities50%

Services (health, schools, offices…)40%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month69%

Jobs Los Ranchos residents hold

436 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+161%

Jobs based in Los Ranchos, 2013 → 2023: 195 → 509. 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.