Work & commute · Lower Lake

Work & commute in Lower Lake, CA

Most working residents leave Lower Lake for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Clearlake (14%), Lakeport (7%) and Santa Rosa (7%). Half commute less than 29 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

20 of 346 working residents

Typical commute

29 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 326 Lower Lake residents head out of town to work, 20 work right here, and 560 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lower Lake.

326live here, work elsewhere

20live and work here

560work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lower Lake goes to work

Clearlake3.5 mi away

14%48

Lakeport19 mi away

7%23

Santa Rosa32.7 mi away

7%23

Lower Lake (in town)right here

6%20

Middletown11.2 mi away

3%10

Hidden Valley Lake8.3 mi away

3%9

St. Helena28.7 mi away

2%7

San Francisco85.1 mi away

2%7

Rohnert Park39.4 mi away

2%6

Ukiah35.9 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

54%188

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

How far

How far Lower Lake commutes

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

28%

18%

27%

28%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

27%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lower Lake is a job hub

1.68jobs 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 Lower Lake are

580 jobs are based in Lower Lake. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lower Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lower Lake

580 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Lower Lake residents hold

346 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+32%

Jobs based in Lower Lake, 2013 → 2023: 438 → 580. 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.