Work & commute · Mountain Gate

Work & commute in Mountain Gate, CA

Most working residents leave Mountain Gate for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Redding (47%), Shasta Lake (5%) and Anderson (3%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

7 of 241 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 234 Mountain Gate residents head out of town to work, 7 work right here, and 63 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mountain Gate.

234live here, work elsewhere

7live and work here

63work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mountain Gate goes to work

Redding10.5 mi away

47%114

Shasta Lake4.1 mi away

5%12

Anderson18.6 mi away

3%8

Sacramento155.5 mi away

3%7

Mountain Gate (in town)right here

3%7

Red Bluff37.9 mi away

2%6

Mount Shasta41.6 mi away

2%4

Palo Cedro11 mi away

2%4

San Francisco210.1 mi away

1%3

Bella Vista5.9 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%73

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

How far

How far Mountain Gate commutes

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

42%

35%

17%

42%Under 10 mi

35%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mountain Gate 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 Mountain Gate are

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

Jobs based in Mountain Gate

70 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Mountain Gate residents hold

241 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month59%

−66%

Jobs based in Mountain Gate, 2013 → 2023: 207 → 70. 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.