Work & commute · Mount Shasta

Work & commute in Mount Shasta, CA

About one in 3 of Mount Shasta’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Weed (7%), Yreka (7%) and Redding (6%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

36%

389 of 1,091 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

18%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 702 Mount Shasta residents head out of town to work, 389 work right here, and 1,404 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mount Shasta.

702live here, work elsewhere

389live and work here

1,404work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mount Shasta goes to work

Mount Shasta (in town)right here

36%389

Weed7.2 mi away

7%74

Yreka32.3 mi away

7%72

Redding51.9 mi away

6%70

McCloud10.4 mi away

4%40

Dunsmuir6.7 mi away

1%14

Sacramento195.4 mi away

1%14

Red Bluff79.4 mi away

1%10

Chico111 mi away

1%9

San Francisco251.2 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%390

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

How far

How far Mount Shasta commutes

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

53%

13%

30%

53%Under 10 mi

3%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

30%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mount Shasta is a job hub

1.64jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mount Shasta are

1,793 jobs are based in Mount Shasta. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mount Shasta’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mount Shasta

1,793 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Mount Shasta residents hold

1,091 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month51%

−6%

Jobs based in Mount Shasta, 2013 → 2023: 1,911 → 1,793. 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.