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Work & commute in Morada · A commuter town

98% of Morada’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Morada for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Stockton (30%), Lodi (7%) and Sacramento (4%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Work in town
2%
38 of 1,797 working residents
Typical commute
11 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
27 min
Less than CA (29 min)
Work from home
11%
Less than CA (17%)
Jobs based here
346
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Morada?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

30% of working residents work in Stockton

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

RiverbankRiponGaltLodi: 119 residents work here (7%)Manteca: 33 residents work here (2%)Elk Grove: 27 residents work here (2%)Modesto: 39 residents work here (2%)San Jose: 28 residents work here (2%)San Francisco: 48 residents work here (3%)Sacramento: 73 residents work here (4%)Stockton: 537 residents work here (30%)Country ClubGarden Acres: 24 residents work here (1%)MoradaLockefordStocktonLodiSacramentoSan FranciscoModestoMantecaMorada
1
Stockton5.5 mi away
30%537
2
Lodi6.2 mi away
7%119
3
Sacramento38.5 mi away
4%73
4
San Francisco99.8 mi away
3%48
5
Modesto30.7 mi away
2%39
6
Morada (in town)right here
2%38
7
Manteca17 mi away
2%33
8
San Jose60 mi away
2%28
9
Elk Grove27.1 mi away
2%27
10
Garden Acres5.3 mi away
1%24
Everywhere elseother towns and states
46%831
The top trips

Where Morada clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Next door

30% of Morada works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to Stockton (30%). Darker towns draw more of Morada’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

Day and night

Morada quiets down on a workday

On a workday 1,759 residents head out to work, 38 work right here, and 308 people come in from elsewhere.

1,759live here, work elsewhere
38live and work here
308work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night3,400
Workday1,900
3,400live here− 1,800head out to work+ 310come in to work= 1,900on a workday

About 1,900 people are in Morada on a workday afternoon, 43% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.19jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Morada commutes less than 11 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miStockton: 30% · 5.5 miLodi: 7% · 6.2 miSacramento: 4% · 38.5 miSan Francisco: 3% · 99.8 miModesto: 2% · 30.7 miManteca: 2% · 17 miSan Jose: 2% · 60 miElk Grove: 2% · 27.1 miGarden Acres: 1% · 5.3 miStockton 30%Lodi 7%Sacramento 4%Modesto 2%Morada
MoradaTop destinations (size = commuters)
49%Under 10 mi873 residents
8%10–24 mi150 residents
21%25–50 mi382 residents
22%Over 50 mi388 residents

About 22% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

The jobs

Mostly services: health care, schools and offices

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

Jobs based in MoradaJobs Morada residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms13%18%
Trade, transport & utilities7%24%
Services: health, schools, offices80%58%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less16%10%
$1,251–$3,333 a month34%23%
Over $3,333 a month51%67%

Who does it

29 or younger21%19%
30 to 5449%50%
55 and older30%31%
+4%

Jobs based in Morada, 2013 → 2023: 332 → 346. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.

Time on the road

About 27 minutes each way, about the CA average

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
208 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Morada27 min
California29 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
11%

of Morada workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10

How Morada ranks on commute time →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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