Work & commute · Lost Hills

Work & commute in Lost Hills, CA

Most working residents leave Lost Hills for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Bakersfield (12%), Wasco (8%) and Delano (6%). Half commute less than 36 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

34 of 412 working residents

Typical commute

36 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 378 Lost Hills residents head out of town to work, 34 work right here, and 708 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lost Hills.

378live here, work elsewhere

34live and work here

708work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lost Hills goes to work

Bakersfield40.9 mi away

12%50

Lost Hills (in town)right here

8%34

Wasco17.7 mi away

8%31

Delano25 mi away

6%24

Shafter28.8 mi away

6%24

Los Angeles132.6 mi away

2%9

Visalia52 mi away

1%6

Fresno79.7 mi away

1%5

Rosedale31.5 mi away

1%5

McFarland25.2 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

54%221

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

How far

How far Lost Hills commutes

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

11%

25%

33%

31%

11%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

33%25–50 mi

31%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lost Hills is a job hub

1.80jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lost Hills are

742 jobs are based in Lost Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lost Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lost Hills

742 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)36%

Trade, transport & utilities35%

Services (health, schools, offices…)29%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Lost Hills residents hold

412 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)46%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)36%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month55%

+86%

Jobs based in Lost Hills, 2013 → 2023: 399 → 742. 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.