Work & commute · Middletown

Work & commute in Middletown, CA

Most working residents leave Middletown for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Santa Rosa (11%), Calistoga (8%) and Hidden Valley Lake (7%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

45 of 371 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 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 Middletown residents head out of town to work, 45 work right here, and 505 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Middletown.

326live here, work elsewhere

45live and work here

505work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Middletown goes to work

Middletown (in town)right here

12%45

Santa Rosa21.6 mi away

11%39

Calistoga12 mi away

8%29

Hidden Valley Lake5.1 mi away

7%27

Clearlake14.4 mi away

6%24

Lakeport25.6 mi away

3%11

San Francisco74.2 mi away

2%9

St. Helena18.5 mi away

2%8

Sacramento63.5 mi away

2%6

Rohnert Park28.3 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%168

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

How far

How far Middletown commutes

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

26%

40%

11%

22%

26%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Middletown is balanced between jobs and homes

1.48jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.48 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Middletown are

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

Jobs based in Middletown

550 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities31%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Middletown residents hold

371 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+17%

Jobs based in Middletown, 2013 → 2023: 469 → 550. 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.