Work & commute · Meiners Oaks

Work & commute in Meiners Oaks, CA

Most working residents leave Meiners Oaks for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Ojai (17%), San Buenaventura (Ventura) (13%) and Los Angeles (10%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

49 of 1,760 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,711 Meiners Oaks residents head out of town to work, 49 work right here, and 453 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Meiners Oaks.

1,711live here, work elsewhere

49live and work here

453work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Meiners Oaks goes to work

Ojai1.4 mi away

17%305

San Buenaventura (Ventura)13 mi away

13%236

Los Angeles57.6 mi away

10%174

Santa Barbara25.5 mi away

4%79

Mira Monte1.9 mi away

4%63

Oxnard18 mi away

3%59

Meiners Oaks (in town)right here

3%49

Oak View4 mi away

1%26

Goleta33.6 mi away

1%25

Camarillo21.1 mi away

1%25

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%719

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

How far

How far Meiners Oaks commutes

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

28%

26%

11%

36%

28%Under 10 mi

26%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

36%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Meiners Oaks is a commuter town

0.29jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Meiners Oaks are

502 jobs are based in Meiners Oaks. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Meiners Oaks’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Meiners Oaks

502 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Meiners Oaks residents hold

1,760 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+33%

Jobs based in Meiners Oaks, 2013 → 2023: 378 → 502. 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.